EDSAC on your desk.

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Mon Sep 21 20:10:11 1998

At 07:21 PM 21-09-98 -0500, Doug Yowza wrote:

>Excellent idea! That's part of the reason to choose Java :-) Sun's Java
>compiler is written in Java, and generates code for the Java virtual
>machine. Most of the Java runtime environment is also written in Java,
>except for the machine-level glue which is written in a combo of C and
>assembler.

I guess the only difference is that BCPL is significantly smaller and
simpler. I doubt that I could move Java to a new environment within a week,
whereas I'd be confident that anyone with some simple programming skills
could move BCPL, even with the limited documentation that exists.

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