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Java also did this ("Java is a blue colar language"†) and was wildly successful. You might not like it either. † http://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/education/avp/pdf

Java also did this ("Java is a blue colar language"†) and was wildly successful. You might not like it either. † http://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/education/avp/pdf/feel-of-java.pdf http://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/education/avp/pdf/feel-of-java....

willtim 8y ago
They didn't include everything, far from it. For example, lambdas were deliberately left out, despite objections from Guy Steele. Parametric polymorphism (generics) was also well known in academia at the time, since the 70's, but Gosling claimed to have not understood it.
- mikkelam 8y ago
  The concept was specifically to include the best ideas, not everything
  - willtim 8y ago
    No the concept was to drag the C++ programmers halfway towards the best ideas :)
    - peatmoss 8y ago
      For those missing the reference, this is a play on a quote attributed to Guy Steele: > "We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."