On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Prof David West <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > 2. Except for a really dumb decision on the part of ParcPlace, Java > would never have come into existence. Sun wanted Smalltalk, and only > when rebuffed, decided to morph Oak to Java. (An earlier, equally > stupid, decision forced Apple to do Object Pascal when they wanted > Smalltalk.) The initial design criteria for Java was to be as > Smalltalk-like as possible while still preserving the > small-footprint/embeddable goals of Oak. I don't understand this. Sun owned David Ungbar's Self group from 1990. If Gosling wanted a Smalltalk in 1991, they already had one. -- rec --
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