Title: Or maybe there <i>are</i>, and my Google-fu is weak.<p>&quot;Traditional&quot; compilable languages, like C, C++, FORTRAN, etc all <i>ought</i> to be targetable to a portable runtime like the JVM (since it defines its own instruction set (Java byte code)).<p>Scala and other languages target the JVM as their runtime environment.<p>Why not older&#x2F;traditionally-compiled languages?
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