Not sure what this rant has to do with the article. > the Hotspot compiler was intended for an ML-type language This is wrong. The JIT came from Self via Str

Not sure what this rant has to do with the article. > the Hotspot compiler was intended for an ML-type language This is wrong. The JIT came from Self via Strongtalk, a variant of Smalltalk. "...built on technologies from an implementation of the programming language Smalltalk named Strongtalk, originally developed by Longview Technologies, which traded as Animorphic. " That's Wikipedia, but I also personally know some of the people involved in Strongtalk who later worked at Sun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot_(virtual_machine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot_(virtual_machine)