[M3devel] Just putting it out there...

[Tony Hosking]

Running Modula-3 on the Sun JVM poses several difficulties, not least that Modula-3 is a systems programming language like C/C++.  Getting C, C++, or Modula-3 to run on the JVM would all be the same level of difficulty.  The safe subset of Modula-3 would be less difficult, but the unsafe operations would probably be a showstopper.  On the other hand, at one point there was a version of Java running in the Modula-3 run-time.

On 20 Jul 2010, at 03:26, Mark Wickens wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> Has there been any discussion/moves about implementing Modula-3 as a
> language that runs on the Sun JVM?
> 
> Seems a logical step given the similarities of Java to Modula-3 (I got
> that phrase the right way round, didn't I?)
> 
> That is something I would definitely be able to provide help for.
> 
> Regards, Mark.