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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by ludston on Saturday November 12, 2022 @10:10AM (#33573760)
No, you can. It's like asking, "why make c# when Java already exists. Isn't it just another algol dialect with gc?"

The answer is, "because somebody made it because they weren't happy with what already existed"

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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by Jtsummers on Saturday November 12, 2022 @10:29AM (#33573961)
A large factor in the push for C# was that MS was sued by Sun for their not-totally-compliant Java dialect, Visual J++, and had to drop it as part of a settlement.

They also had Visual J# which ran on .NET, allowing Visual J++ and Java programs to target that platform.

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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by skissane on Saturday November 12, 2022 @10:52AM (#33574171)
There is also a non-Microsoft open source implementation of Java on top of .NET, IKVM.NET - I was sad to see it die when its original developer lost interest (although I just learnt it has since been revived by others)
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