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Everything is not Java

When we think about a way to create something that will run in every equipment we think of JVM. In this case, as programmers we tend to seek for something that will run in everything and in the easiest way.  The problem of this solution is that  the limitations of Java tend to be  useful for some basic problems but not for a compiler.

 Why is that?

A compiler is a machine that can change many things inside the computer. This means that what we are creating is a bridge between the computer and the human language that we are using.  This bridge tends to have many characteristics that depend on the use that we are gonna give it to. 

One of the main characteristics of this bridge is imthat we can choose between the numbers that the computer will have  to understand such as hexa, binary or even octal. These points are important to mention due to the fact that we will need to understand what we are doing and how much presition  we need to have.  

Another thing to mention is that we need to understand the way this works and how it is vulnerable to other's. In this case we tend to seek for security for the language  and for what we do. We can do something more when we create a compiler rather than we use JVM. We can do something for the inside  and to protect what we do  rather to take for advantage that someone else will do it for me.

Another thing we need to understand is that  a JVM will generate an app that will be stable since the creation of it, in comparison to a complier. In this case a compiler seeks for understand  what the user will do  and what does it needs. And we need to take into consideration that we need to understand how it will be read and understand by the computer. We create the rules before we can even do something.

Finally I consider that it is important for us to understand the way we need to compute an activity by the rules we want before we even understand and can create something like an app or a service. We need to understand that a compiler is not what we are used to create, but it is important for us to understand what we can do in a computer and on the operating system. We are used to create  things on something but not that something. 

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