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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by oopd on Thursday February 11, 2010 @07:38PM (#1119253)
"They cited Obj-C, not Smalltalk."

The author also cites Goslings "lots of experience" with Smalltalk.

"In any event the claim is the design is influenced by Obj-C not that it is actually just like Obj-C, a distinction you seem to have trouble making."

The influence is not sufficient to justify that claim any more than Java's garbage collection would justify its designers in describing Java as "Lispy" or "Lisp-like."

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by 10ren on Thursday February 11, 2010 @08:33PM (#1119426)
"We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." - Guy Steele, co-author of the Java spec
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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by tedunangst on Thursday February 11, 2010 @11:08PM (#1119727)
Guy Steele apparently measures distance on a log scale. :)
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