> That's a bit ironic given that Guy Steele (one of the creators of Scheme) helped write the original Java specification. Note that "write the specification" i

> That's a bit ironic given that Guy Steele (one of the creators of Scheme) helped write the original Java specification. Note that "write the specification" in this context meant creating a text to describe a design that had been done by other people before he joined. Guy made it quite clear at OOPSLA 2003 (which had become essentially a Java conference) that the language would have been different if he had been able to have any input.