On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:08:54 +0200, Paulo Pinto <pj...@progtools.org>
wrote:
The SunSpot VM is written in Java with a very small subset of C code.
http://www.sunspotworld.com
http://labs.oracle.com/projects/squawk/squawk-rjvm.html
The Jikes RVM is written mostly in Java.
http://jikesrvm.org/Presentations
The Maxime VM is written mostly in Java
http://148.87.46.199/projects/maxine/
The Oracle/Sun HotSpot is written in C++
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot
And this is just a small list, as there are quite a few JVMs around.
Each of these 4 cases you support Walter's point.
He didn't say you can't write programs in Java or you can't interoperate
with other languages.