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		MrMan on June 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hate Java? You’re fighting the wrong battle. Bytecode is the assembly language of the JVM. Java is the Java of the JVM.

spullara on June 5, 2011 [–]

The differences between Java and its bytecode are pretty small. There are only a couple things that you can do in bytecode that you can't do in Java source and they are mostly irrelevant.

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