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"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." - Guy Steele, Ja
by pjmlp 4mo ago
"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."
- Guy Steele, Java spec co-author
"35 years of Lisping at SISCOG"
https://www.siscog.pt/en-us/blog/35-years-of-lisping-at-siscog-a-trip-down-memory-lane/ https://www.siscog.pt/en-us/blog/35-years-of-lisping-at-sisc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-A0E9D801-8BE9-4BF1-85E8-3807E15F3B71 https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-A0E9...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
- sph 4mo agoI respect Guy Steele immensely, but his view of Java as being halfway to Lisp is sign that he had jumped the shark by that point, and find it hard to take the rest of his work seriously.