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Maybe better titled "JVM's Forgotten Forebear"

• sn41 8y ago
  Precisely. As a language, probably Smalltalk is the forebear of Java. And Smalltalk is hardly forgotten.
  • igouy 8y ago
    Before the JVM there was a Smalltalk VM ;-)
    • KMag 8y ago
      And, in fact, Oracle/Sun's HotSpot JIT started out in LongView's Strongtalk VM, or at least it was written by the same people after Sun acquired LongView. I haven't read any documentation one way or the other if any of the Strongtalk source code was directly re-used in HotSpot.