[Info-vax] [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kjkvcs$16l$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> I'm guessing one of the major goals of Java was to run on just about any 
> hardware and OS.  It's not real efficient, but, for most uses, it 
> doesn't need to be.  When you're doing something only once, you don't 
> need efficiency, you need ease of use and universal use.
> 
> Fortran, Cobol, and other compiled languages are meant to be good at 
> doing things many times.

OK.  But the discussion started around languages to write an OS on.
Surely there one is talking of compiled code and not the
one-size-fits-all Java approach.