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To: DiViT who wrote (53911)	4/24/2003 6:15:27 PM
From: Nolan S. Toone	Respond to of 64865

You compile your Java into Bytecode then run it directly on a machine with no need to interpret it? I heard that a Java VM was needed to interpret the Bytecode and convert it to machine language. If you have the right machine you can run it without a JVM. If not then you use the JVM. Java's design goal was to be hardware agnostic so that it runs equally well on all platforms. (I wonder if MicroSlop could make that "next logical step"?) By your definition of Interpreted then C, C++ and ALL the others would have to be considered Interpreted because they compile to a byte code and get interpreted into machine code by the loader. Pearl is an interpreted language because the runnable IS the source.