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Re:Show HN: Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk by userbinator on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:23PM (#23622819)
Such a thing does exist: http://jawk.sourceforge.net/

...and that naturally leads to pondering whether an implementation of AWK that runs on the JVM can then run an implementation of the JVM that runs on AWK, and vice-versa...

Re:Show HN: Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk by tennineeight on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:33AM (#23625153)
If its all Turing complete, I see no reason why it can't be possible, theoretically speaking.