Here's one of the scientific questions, and FWIW, it's actually written right on the first page: can you implement a programming language that relies on synchro

Here's one of the scientific questions, and FWIW, it's actually written right on the first page: can you implement a programming language that relies on synchronous primitives in a language that has only asynchronous primitives? The answer to that question is not obvious, but it turns out to be "yes". Doppio is existential proof that it can be done. Furthermore, that fact is falsifiable (see Karl Popper), which makes the process of learning the answer "science." You may not think this is an important question to answer--and that is your prerogative--but you can't argue that it isn't scientific. One of those other scientific questions is about threading (again, see page 1). BTW, did you know that System.out.println relies on synchronization primitives? You literally cannot write helloworld in Java without invoking a lot of machinery.