RE: JVM implementation

JPL is not a suitable replacement for Jpython;
Perhaps Bradley Kuhn will have something nice,
someday.

But in posting here I was inquiring to see if 
there was interest or vision among perl6 peoples 
in making a JVM implementation of perl6.

I've been hacking in perl5 for some years now,
but I'm becoming more of a Servlet guy
because I like the discipline Java imposes, and I
like the full support of modern computer science/
software construction methodology.

I just read a very nifty editorial in the Java
Developers Journal on the MERIT of glue/scripting
languages tho:  Java, although superior for large
programs, and software construction by teams composed
of dissimilar programmers; is NOT a glue language - 
(being staticly typed & not interpreted).

Java needs glue; perl-xml can be that glue; else
perl can/will lose ground for the next one to five
years, probably losing its place as the most popular
CGI programming language.

md


> From: Stephen Zander  gibreel@pobox.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000
> Subject: Re: JVM implementation like Jpython?
> 
> Monty, you want the jpl project or more accurately Bradley Kuhn's
> <URL:mailto:bkuhn@ebb.org> work for his Master's thesis.  Send mail to
> jpl@perl.org for more information.
> 
> Bradley's stuff is still pretty alpha.

• RE: JVM implementation by Dickerson, Monty W.