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And don't forget UCSD Pascal - N/T
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 01:11 PM EDT
nt

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They are not thinking about that
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 01:37 PM EDT
Right now the only thing on the mind of Oracle's executives and legal team is
winning at any cost. It is not about their own business or about their own
profits. Like most coporations, they would rather collapse in bankruptcy than
see someone else make a single dime off of something they think they
"own."

That is what this patent nonsense is all about. Crushing the competition is the
only goal. Cost is irrelevant. It is not rational. This is the
"ownership" society.

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Speaking of Perl...
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 02:36 PM EDT
...I remember reading that java.util.regex uses a similar regex syntax to
Perl's.

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Google Files Motion for New Trial on Question 1 Re API SSO ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 04:29 PM EDT
IBM wrote the original Oracle SQL API as SEQUEL. I wonder if
that copyright is still in effect?

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Interpreted languages
Authored by: mexaly on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 05:02 PM EDT
I believe LISP might be pretty early in the family tree of interpreters. It has
names that came from the IBM 7090 series, which introduced transistors to
mainframe computing.

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Google Files Motion for New Trial on Question 1 Re API SSO ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 05:17 PM EDT
Java is not interpreted. Its compiled into bytecode.

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Java bytecode is almost all compiled to machine language
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 08:59 PM EDT

Modern JVMs do very little bytecode interpretation. Run your favorite Java program from a command line, allowing the JVM to JIT compile the bytecode to machine language as it normally does

java ...
and then run it again, interpreted,
java -Xint ...
and see how slow interpretation is. You would notice if the JVM were doing any substantial amount of interpretation, because your program would be so slow.

Note: The "-Xint" option that tells the JVM not to use the JIT compiler is, like all the -X options, subject to change. It works in Java SE 1.4 through 1.6, but I haven't checked any other Java versions.

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