C Minus Minus - Hackdot

Re:C Minus Minus by FartyMcFarter on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:15AM (#33261664)

Java requires a certain amount of memory and CPU power (if nothing else because it's a garbage collected language).

I doubt Java is available on some of the smallest computers C can run on, like many microcontrollers or legacy platforms.

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Re:C Minus Minus by haspok on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:55AM (#33262180)

There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Platform,_Micro_Edition

But of course, a 32KB RAM minimum would be too much for some legacy systems. Still, Java is actually far more flexible than most people would think.

(Also, at its heart the JVM is just a Forth-like stack based interpreter, and I would guess that loading and parsing a .class file is more complicated than the interpreter itself!)

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Re:C Minus Minus by pjmlp on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:42AM (#33262955)

Smart Cards?

Full C is also not available everywhere, specially 8 bit and 16 bit computers where it is mostly a pseudo macro assembler.

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