RE: : Odd RPG Compiler thought that entered my brain

[Mike Cunningham <mcunning@xxxxxxx>]

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)

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:24 PM
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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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