From: Jeff Barczewski <jeff.barczewski@...>
Date: 2009-09-11T23:54:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyscript instead of javascript

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On 9/8/09, J=F6rg W Mittag
<JoergWMittag+Usenet@googlemail.com<JoergWMittag%2BUsenet@googlemail.com>>
wrote:
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>
>
> We already have. It's called ECMAScript. The only thing missing to
> make it a great truly great VM is GOTO, but it actually *does* have
> GOTO, it's just spelled funny: E-X-C-E-P-T-I-O-N.
>
> Here is just a small excerpt of the languages that target ECMAScript:
>
> * CIL bytecode (meaning any CLI language, and that includes Ruby,
>   Python, PHP, Perl, Scheme, Prolog(!), ... can run on ECMAScript),
> * JVM bytecode (meaning any JVM language, and that includes Ruby,
>   Python, PHP, Scheme, ... can run on ECMAScript),
> * YARV bytecode (meaning any YARV language, and that *obviously*
>   includes Ruby can run on ECMAScript),
> * any language implementation that uses PyPy (including Python,
>   Smalltalk, Prolog),
> * Clojure,
> * C,
> * Flapjax,
> * Caja,
> * Objective-J,
> * Clamato,
> * haXe and
> * links.



So are you saying that if someone writes a VM that has the proper ECMAScrip=
t
hooks then you could run one of these languages without needing to convert
into javascript or even run a VM in javascript?

Interesting.

Jeff

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