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  3. January 2008

Re: : Odd RPG Compiler thought that entered my brain

Booth Martin wrote:
> 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?


Mike Cunningham wrote:
That is my understanding also. All languages are first translated to a middle layer that is the same and then that middle layer is what is compiled into the executable. Of course I got this information many years ago at a COMMON conference (pre-ILE days)

As I understand it, this is the way that .NET languages work too. All of the .NET compilers produce bytecode in the Common Intermediate Language, which is run by a Common-Language-Interface-compliant virtual machine.

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