[Info-vax] The Kotlin language, something for VMS as well?

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:18:47 UTC+1, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:
> On 7/13/2017 10:30 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> > On 7/13/2017 10:18 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> >> On 7/13/17 7:39 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> >>> On 7/13/2017 8:25 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> >>>>                               Maybe LLVM can produce code runable
> >>>> in the JVM, no idea...
> >>>
> >>> I think such work has been done. Not sure about details though.
> >>
> >> https://github.com/davidar/lljvm
> >>
> >> Only C is supported at the moment. Just add MACRO and BLISS and pretty
> >> soon you'll have VMS running on the JVM :-).
> > 
> > Now that's a truly scary thought.   :-)
> 
> Lot of stuff in an OS could be done in a VM languages.
> 
> But there are some things in the kernel where VM languages
> are hopeless inadequate.
> 
> The farest anyone has come in this area is supposedly MS:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)
> 
> Arne

Didn't the UCSD p-system do a whole OS on what is now called a 
"virtual machine"? This was back in the late 1970s, around the
same time as a couple of blokes were playing with a 4K BASIC
for the Altair? UCSD p-System was available for a variety of
target processsors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal