Anyone care to explain the downvotes? The poster I replied to claimed that Dalvik is different because people target different languages at it. Not only do people do this for the JVM, I think it was probably the first VM where people did this.

Easy: read the first 7 words of your post.

The UCSD P-system was a VM that ran several languages, and was at least a decade older than the JVM.

Ok, so that makes my "AFAIK" statement incorrect, but that doesn't affect the point nor explain the down votes.

things that will get you downvoted include statements like "wtf, you apparently don't know..."

1) impolite. 2) your comments should concentrate on what you can add to the convo, not what others haven't.

I mean, it also doesn't help that your statement was incorrect (P-system as mentioned), but being rude in what is ideally a civil forum dedicated to a stated purpose is not helpful.

> The poster I replied to claimed that Dalvik is different because people target different languages at it

Reading comprehension, bro. Give it a try.

The Dalvik VM, like the Java Virtual Machine, is quite capable of running languages that aren't Java. There's nothing controversial or incorrect about that statement.