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Re:No Java 7, The End Game by zmmmmm on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @12:45AM (#1782344)
I'm not so sure.

A "JVM" is not a Java language interpreter anyway but a Java byte code interpreter. AFAIK all those other languages only run on Dalvik by first being compiled to Java byte code format, thus it is arguable that they are all "Java" as far as the VM goes.

What Google needs is something that compiles directly to Dalvik's own native format which has no "Java" at all in the pipeline.

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Re:No Java 7, The End Game by technomancy on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @01:07PM (#1784075)
> AFAIK all those other languages only run on Dalvik by first being compiled to Java byte code format

You seem to think the JVM bytecode format is specific to the Java Programming Language™; why is this?

Admittedly Sun has muddled things up here by using the word "Java" to mean many separate things.

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