Subject:	If it runs on the JVM, it's not a non-Java language
	Date:	2007-01-28 22:02:44
	From:	headius
Response to: If it runs on the JVM, it's not a non-Java language
Then I guess by that logic all scripting languages written in C are actually C languages. Or perhaps they're assembly language dialects? The JVM is a machine. Bytecodes are its instructions. An implementation of a language for the JVM is just as non-Java as an implementation for x86 is non-assembly.