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I heard a very similar story, but it was Sun wanting to license Smalltalk. Rebuffed by very high licensing costs quoted by Adele Goldberg, they went and created
by i_feel_great 8y ago
I heard a very similar story, but it was Sun wanting to license Smalltalk. Rebuffed by very high licensing costs quoted by Adele Goldberg, they went and created Java instead.
Edit: From this video https://vimeo.com/77415896 https://vimeo.com/77415896
- goatlover 8y agoThat's interesting because Sun created Self, which is based on Smalltalk, and the VM they used for Self become the Hotspot VM. So I don't know why they went with Java just because of high licensing costs for Smalltalk. I say this before watching the video.
- twic 8y agoAh, i've probably heard a mangled version of that story!