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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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