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Precisely. As a language, probably Smalltalk is the forebear of Java. And Smalltalk is hardly forgotten.
by sn41 8y ago
Precisely. As a language, probably Smalltalk is the forebear of Java. And Smalltalk is hardly forgotten.
- igouy 8y agoBefore the JVM there was a Smalltalk VM ;-)
- KMag 8y agoAnd, 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.