Harbour was able to produce outout Java files like .C

[shri_fwh]

Hi All ,

In the initial Harbour's development stage, Harbour was able to produce Java output files like .C ( that is default today). We had to supply /Java option to produce Java files. If Harbour would have been produced Java files then Harbour would be more strong XBase compiler in the world today. Why it was discarded ? do not know.

Thanks
Shridhar

[Antonio Linares]

Shridar,

It was not implemented for two reasons mainly:

1. Nothing runs as fast as the C language. Thats why we choosed it to build Harbour

2. It has not much sense to implement a virtual machine on top of another virtual machine. In order to get the best execution speed we should use the java virtual machine and generate opcodes for it, but java and Harbour are different thats why we cant use its virtual machine directly