in reply to Possibility of Perl running on Java VM?

Dan and Larry went to Sun last fall to talk about Perl and Perl 6 on the JVM. I seem to remember Dan saying that Sun thinks that maybe it might be possible to add an opcode to do dynamic dispatch for method calls, but that's about the extent of their desire and ability to support dynamic languages.

If Perl runs on the JVM, it's not because the JVM provides rich primitives to make it works. It'll take a really clever hacker to build most of what Perl needs atop the JVM.

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Re^2: Possibility of Perl running on Java VM?
by techcode (Hermit) on Jun 17, 2005 at 13:17 UTC
    But I belive it will pay off. Most of desktop computers (ones with Win/Mac ussualy) have Java VM installed.

    So if Perl would be able to run on it, you could write apps for basicly "all" computers in the ussage today.

    "ALL" - OK I'm exagerating a little bit, but you get the point.
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      Maybe so, but good luck finding a recent JVM for any platform other than MS Windows, Sparc Solaris, x86 Linux (32 bit, I believe), and perhaps Mac OS X. I have code that runs more places than that, and it's not Java code.

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        Corect me if I'm wrong (probably I am to some point) but from the list that you wrote, most have Perl ... yet Windows doesnt have Perl.

        And overall, weither we like it or not, Windows has most desktop users (personal computers, in companies) ...
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