Phoenix.pm: Interesting paper comparing programming languages

Dave Warner davewarner98 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 9 11:36:43 CDT 2000


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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