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Implementing Languages Other than Java on the Java Virtual Machine

Year: 2000

Type: article

Abstract: The portability and runtime safety of programs which are executed on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) makes the JVM an attractive target for compilers of languages other than Java. Unfortunately, the JVM was designed with language Java in mind, and lacks many of the primitives required for a straight forward implementation of other languages. Here, we discuss how the JVM may be used to implement other object oriented languages. As a practical example of the possibilities, we report on a comprehensive case study. The open source Gardens Point Component Pascal compiler compiles the entire Component Pascal language, a dialect of Oberon 2, to JVM bytecodes. This compiler achieves runtime efficiencies which are comparable to native code implementations of procedural languages.

Source: QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology)

Authors: John Gough, Diane Corney

Language: English

Topic: Logic, programming, and type systems

Subfield: Software

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: American Society of Hematology, Pusan National University, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Awards: Novel Therapeutics for Acquired Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, G3042755300, G3245473594, Mechanisms of normal and abnormal platelet homeostasis, G4598581547, Protein structure and function by hydrogen exchange mass spectrometry analysis, Training grant in hemostasis and thrombosis

OpenAlex ID: W26203127

FWCI: 0.629

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