Re:Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech
by astrange on Friday May 16, 2025 @08:44PM
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> I think it's incredible with hindsight how Java countered many of the mid 90s C++ problems, especially by avoiding multiple inheritance.
This is because Java is based on an older language called Objective-C that doesn't have multiple inheritance :)
It's not based on C++, that's just the other OO language from the era people usually think of.
Re:Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech
by fidotron on Saturday May 17, 2025 @07:52AM
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> This is because Java is based on an older language called Objective-C that doesn't have multiple inheritance :)
No it's not, certainly not any more than it's "based" on Smalltalk.
It remains a shame that it didn't launch with generics though, and I still think operator overloading would have been good. Had it done so I think a lot more people would have stuck around for when the performance improved with HotSpot.