The other bit though is that this is just funny, the x86 CPU is effectively a generic VM, its what IBM called the microprocessor when they first created the because unlike dedicated previous approaches it could be many different machines just via programming. A "Virtual" Machine in fact.
Now we have the JVM and the CLR, they are both "generic" VMs and one has a much broader platform support and the other has more languages (still not seeing the research around language heterogenity being a good thing BTW). Sun is getting happy clappy with the scripting world and putting them on the JVM so we already sort of have that generic VM.
What a generic VM platform will lead to is people creating specific VMs running ontop of the generic VM for specific purposes. Not sure that this is a good thing but it will happen.
The JVM is just another machine, its a generic VM, all you have to do is write the language port. I knew this in January 1997 so it really isn't rocket science.
If you want your favourite scripting language to run on a "generic" VM then port it to the JVM or the CLR. What is all the fuss about?
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