2006/11/14, Another Dave <dooright101 at yahoo.com>:
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> Sounds like they are writing a metacompiled language with low-level
> primitives capable of accessing the hardware directly. IMHO Sun should have
> done this fifteen years ago when they had a leg-up on the industry with
> Forth. Now, they are going to try again using a Java syntax. This sounds
> silly to me, as Java is just a "simplified" version of the very languages
> the article says they are trying to replace!
>
> The only thing this will have in common with Squeak is that they both have a
> VM. The writers could just as well have compared Squawk to .Net, or, uh,
> Java!

Isn't the OVM (realtime Java VM) implemented it Java?

Philippe