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Nit: Halfway to somewhere, but that somewhere ain't Lisp. I'm under-rested and under-caffeinated, but the only thing I can think of that I'd call an intentiona

by crux_ 16y ago

Nit: Halfway to somewhere, but that somewhere ain't Lisp. I'm under-rested and under-caffeinated, but the only thing I can think of that I'd call an intentional similarity between the two languages is the fact they're both garbage collected.

wtracy 16y ago
Cobol? :-P
- crux_ 16y ago
  Smalltalk would be a good non-snarky answer and one with some basis in history, although Smalltalk seems to have been a much stronger influence over the JVM than the Java language.
froydnj 16y ago
FWIW, none other than Guy Steele has cited Java as dragging C++ programmers halfway to Lisp: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg04045.html http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
- crux_ 16y ago
  I'd agree with him, given that this statement was about programmers and Java really did open the floodgates for a diversity of programming languages to become accepted, or at least tolerated. The Java language itself, however, is not very close to Lisp at all.