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To: LKO who wrote (8292)	3/12/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

LKO, it's a lot simpler than that. You write an OS in a language and you expose the services provided by the OS in that language. Most of the time that's C in which case all languages must be built on top of C. It's that simple. As far as the relationship to Java, the Java virtual machine is written in Java programming language and all other languages must be built on top of the Java interface to use those services. As with C on UNIX, Java developers never have to switch gears: they write components, tools, applications and utilities in Java, for Java and with Java. It's a scalable, homogeneous environment. Having said that, there is no reason why any language can't be used to generate Java applications which explains why there already are other languages being used to develop Java applications.