Phoenix.pm: Interesting paper comparing programming languages

[Scott Walters]

Awesome!! Bring them for show and tell at the next Perl meeting... I gotta
see that...

-scott

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Dave Warner wrote:

> Scott,
> 
>    I've still got my copy of BCPL on Hollerith cards.
> 
>                             
>                      Dave 
> 
> --- Scott Walters <root at nebuchadnezzar.slowass.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 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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