Is it that big of a step to assume that old school Lispers know about Genera and have been influenced by it? >But the idea of Java being Lisp influenced is que

Is it that big of a step to assume that old school Lispers know about Genera and have been influenced by it? >But the idea of Java being Lisp influenced is questionable. Though they had Guy Steele, who said something about bringing C programmers halfway to Lisp, pretty much the the only Lisp idea in Java is garbage collection. Java also has some dynamicism through classloaders and reflection. >The JVM is hostile against the efficient implementation of Lisp-like languages; it doesn't let you pack tag fields into pointer values. It's a good trade off for Java, pointer coloring is used by ZGC for example.