2003, Guy Steele: "And you're right: [the designers of Java] were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to dra

2003, Guy Steele: "And you're right: [the designers of Java] were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp. Aren't you happy?" 2008, C#: Three quarters of the way to Lisp!