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The world has never seen a vm specifically designed for dynamic language.
Oh, the young'uns, forgetting all about Smalltalk in 1980. {sigh}

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Re^3: Perl 6... do we need another vm?
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Sep 05, 2006 at 08:08 UTC
    Oh, the young'uns, forgetting all about Smalltalk in 1980. {sigh}

    Not to mention Lisp :-)

    Hell - if you've got a Linux box you can still play with Poplog. Lisp, Pop-11, ML & Prolog all compiling down to the same stack based VM, which was in turned compiled down to a RISCish register based VM, which was in turned compiled down to machine code.

    Kid's eh? :-)

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