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They didn't include everything, far from it. For example, lambdas were deliberately left out, despite objections from Guy Steele. Parametric polymorphism (gener

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."