[M3devel] Just putting it out there...

[Mark Wickens]

Tony,

Yes, after I'd written the email and thought about it I realised it was
a pretty stupid idea.

Mark.

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 09:26 -0400, Tony Hosking wrote:
> 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.
>