Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-harmony-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 92556 invoked from network); 12 May 2005 12:35:45 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 12 May 2005 12:35:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 94665 invoked by uid 500); 12 May 2005 12:36:53 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-harmony-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 93975 invoked by uid 500); 12 May 2005 12:36:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact harmony-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 93245 invoked by uid 99); 12 May 2005 12:36:03 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (hermes.apache.org: domain of citibob@earthlink.net designates 209.86.89.65 as permitted sender) Received: from smtpauth05.mail.atl.earthlink.net (HELO smtpauth05.mail.atl.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.65) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.28) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 May 2005 05:36:03 -0700 Received: from [70.23.217.114] (helo=[192.168.1.46]) by smtpauth05.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DWCr1-00065g-Nj for harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:31:51 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=test1; d=earthlink.net; h=Mime-Version:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Message-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding:From:Subject:Date:To:X-Mailer; b=coRKwMuKE7CfsR30ryuZvuHCMnh+TnTasI/r3yIa9q/Rmy6KP1JXpqwd4qRGu7EB; Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <15deb891632b45ac65a9721006b41fb0@earthlink.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bob Subject: Re: Against using Java to implement Java (Was: Java) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:31:50 -0400 To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-ELNK-Trace: 437d5ed260f96b1ed780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bc4e0e71392d23ab75a199836c4b42b824350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 70.23.217.114 X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On May 12, 2005, at 7:17 AM, theUser BL wrote: > I hope you use C to write the VM for Harmony. GCJ would suit all the concerns you listed. In many ways, GCJ can be thought of as "C++ in Java syntax, plus a nice runtime library". GCJ can load .dll/.so files, etc (using extensions to the standard Java language).