Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C

Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by SeanLuke on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @11:12PM (#4972303)

Wow, a pointer to an old page of mine, that's weird to see on HN. This post was originally from comp.sys.newton.misc, back when I was a PhD student. Here was the thread:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.sys.newton.misc/Kb0Jo...

The discussion was originally about Java on the Newton, and someone had made the goofy suggestion that Java was based on NewtonScript. Patrick Naughton jumping in was an interesting ending to the thread.

As a side note: four years later I actually wound up writing the only version of Java released on the Newton (Waba).

http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/projects/newton/waba/

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by seanmcdirmid on Thursday December 27, 2012 @12:39AM (#4972491)

That is quite cool! I wrote a JVM for the PalmPilot in 1998:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~mcdirmid/ghost/

Lots of fun fitting the 1.0.2 class libraries into 180K (out of 256K available, needed some space to run in!).

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by huherto on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @11:42PM (#4972361)

May be this time you can fit here your proof that P == NP.

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