From: William Rutiser Date: 2011-04-11T23:48:13+09:00 Subject: Re: can we use direct ruby instaed of javascript ? On 2011-04-11 5:45 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote > > This is incredibly cool but can you really translate any language into > machine code? > What about languages that are completely different from machine code? > In Haskell, for example, everything happens lazily, data is immutable, > there is a complex type system. Can you really map this right to > machine code? (Or am I misunderstanding your question?) Yes but some language features would depend on a run-time library. The compiler-interpreter dichotomy is better thought of as a continuum. Bill Rutiser