E was never meant to be tied to Java (after the very early period in both languages when the E people tried to get Sun interested in incorporating their ideas).

E was never meant to be tied to Java (after the very early period in both languages when the E people tried to get Sun interested in incorporating their ideas). http://erights.org/history/original-e/index.html http://erights.org/history/original-e/index.html After that the JVM was the first target platform but the language design was not meant to depend on it.