Nigel Galloway wrote:
> Should a language like Joy be compared to Java.

Yes and no. A language like Joy yes; Joy itself NO. Joy is an academic
prototype, not really intended for any specific use.

> For efficiency the JVM reads and 'understands' the bytecodes. It does
> not execute them slavishly as real assmbler is by a real CPU but
> intelligently optimizing the instructions.

Right.

The concatenative language "Cat" was originally designed for this
general type of use, as an intermediate language. You might want to read
up on it. It also has a fairly advanced type checker.

-Wm