Phoenix.pm: Interesting paper comparing programming languages

[Scott Walters]

Dave,

BCPL had an "ocode" layer as well - same thing as Pascal P-code or Java's
byte code... ahhh, BCPL. Now that was a language.

-scott

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Dave Warner wrote:

> Python is also written to bytecode (.pyc) files and
> then executed.  The bytecodes (like those of Java's)
> are architecture and os independent.  If you are old
> (like me) you may remember UCSD Pascal (on the Apple
> II), which was one of the first pseudo-code compilers.
> 
>  
>                Dave Warner
> 
> 
> 
> --- Doug Miles <doug.miles at bpxinternet.com> wrote:
> > Bryan Lane wrote:
> > > 
> > > Very informative.  It seemed to be an in depth
> > study.  I thought Java should
> > > be considered a scripting language.  Perhaps I
> > just don't know enough about
> > > Java.
> > 
> > I'm guessing since Java's bytecode form is written
> > to disk, and then
> > that is executed, instead of just one step, and
> > since it is not a true
> > system binary like C/C++, it was put into a separate
> > category.  Does
> > anyone know if any of the other scripting languages
> > are compiled into
> > bytecode and then executed like perl, or do they use
> > some other method?
> > 
> > -- 
> > - Doug
> > 
> > "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell
> > the 
> > word you first thought of."
> > --Burt Bacharach
> 
> 
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