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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by dunham on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:20PM (#32429758)
According to one of the developers of Java, Java was also inspired by Objective-C:

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by pjmlp on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:05AM (#32435143)
Yes, Java is basically the semantics of Smalltalk/Objective-C, with the syntax of C++.

The way dynamic code works (classloader, reflection), methods being virtual by default, interfaces, the JAR archives (think NeXT app bundles),... all that is Smalltalk/Objective-C influence.

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