Re: Native Java (was Re: Learning Cocoa ..).
Re: Native Java (was Re: Learning Cocoa ..).
- Subject: Re: Native Java (was Re: Learning Cocoa ..).
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:07:13 -0500
At 3:54 PM -0500 7/18/01, Andre Benassi wrote:
I was under the impression that you had two options in Mac OS X. One, was
that you can write platform agnostic pure Java code and have it run on an
interpreter.
I see the misconception that Java is an interpreted language repeated a lot.
Java is a compiled language. It's just usually compiled for a
"virtual machine" rather than a physical machine.
A program in an interpreted language is executed directly from the
program source. Tcl and AppleSoft BASIC are good examples of
interpreted languages.
Java bytecode -- the instruction set of the Java virtual machine --
*may* be interpreted. However, in common practice it's also a
compiled language, compiled directly to your processor's native
machine code.
-- Chris
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