Re: Universal Programming Language(does what JAVA did)

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Subject: Re: Universal Programming Language(does what JAVA did)
From: Tavis Segura <tsegura@RICE.EDU>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 13:18:13 -0700
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
>
> what you get is an interpreter type of thing.This already exists. It's
> called TI-BASIC. Aside from that, programs, and this translator, are
> going to be huge, and you aren't going to make any sort of serious
> game with it. waaaay too much speed loss.

  This universal protocol, however, will not be as limited as Basic in
programming.  The _translator_ itself doesn't necessarily have to be
inside the calc, just a shell that executes, and possibly optimizes, the
translated code.  The translator could just be a beefed up program on
the computer you have to send the programs from anyway.
  Unfortunately, the hardware specs and the ROM itself can make a
translator pretty difficult.  In addition to that, the translator must
be able to be used on multiple computer platforms, that is, unless you
make some for every type of computer.

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Universal Programming Language(does what JAVA did)

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Re: Universal Programming Language(does what JAVA did)

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