Re: Virtual Machine in the abstract (was Re: [DotGNU]What languages shouldDotGNU support?)

[Peter Minten]

Stephen Compall wrote:
 
> Peter Minten wrote:

> The conceptual SEE supports any executable that can be
> magic-numberified.  DotGNU will thus not have to provide all the
> virtual machines itself, but instead rely on third-party support (PSF,
> Ruby).

So to run a Ruby webservice you tell SEE to run the ruby executable and tell
that to interpret the script? I like the idea, it's simple, it's elegant and
it's
very compatible with existing code.

>  > IMHO we should stop thinking in VM boxes and start allowing all
>  > possibilities.  That includes LISP, Python, C++, etc. And we should
>  > be able to use the natively without compiling to VM first.
> 
> Of course you mean to interpret them in their respective interpreters.

Yes.

Greetings,

Peter