Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:41:19 GMT, Maurice LING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > > I'm hoping for a more optimistic outcome that this may open a > > possibility for tigher interoperability between java programs and python > > programs. That is, run java class files or java codes natively on python > > VM. Is this still a blue sky dream? > > > Most unlikely to happen... I don't really see anyone going to the > effort to change the javac back-end to target a totally different > runtime engine. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > (Bestiaria Support Staff: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/
I once wrote a partial JVM in Modula-3 (strictly a researchware effort), so I can imagine it being done technically. But why? The big problem with Java-and-Python is not the VMs underneath. It is the fact that Java has layers upon layers upon layers of idiosyncratic libraries and idioms. When you write bindings to that world (even if the bindings are generated automagically), you have to *think* in those same layers. The Python-oriented developer suddenly has to use a dozen imports in order to do things already done better in Pythonesque libraries. -- Harry George PLM Engineering Architecture -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
