On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 11:00:01 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 10:30:21 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/21/2012 2:13 AM, Max Samukha wrote:
What Walter is wrong about is that bytecode is entirely
pointless.
I'll bite. What is its advantage over source code?
It is not about bytecode vs source code. It is about a common
platform-independent intermediate representation for multiple
languages. JS is such a representation in the browsers and it
is widely used. It it entirely pointless? I am not convinced it
is.
Another example. Many of us here are talking in an intermediate
language, which not English :) The concept of a common
representation works pretty well here.