RE: : Odd RPG Compiler thought that entered my brain

["DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM does not link directly to hardware in this platform...  As I recall, W-code links to NMI (new MI) which virtualizes the machine interfaces.  Only ILE compilers generate W-code.  The OPM compilers generate OMI, which converts to NMI.  

Oh yeah, Java bytecode can be converted to NMI...

Eric

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Subject: Re: : Odd RPG Compiler thought that entered my brain


Doesn't IBM use a process they call W code that is the interface to the 
silicone?  Don't all programming languages eventually have to, at some 
point, write to the W Code? 

Alan Campin wrote:
> If you go back to Turing, he said that any virtual machine can emulate
> any other virtual machine. That is the basis of all computer system so
> obviously RPG could generate byte code. I think there are some 200
> languages that currently generate Java byte code. I think the problem is
> more as another post said, it is the supporting system that are the big
> problem. 
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