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Java stepped into a natural void. There weren't many safe GC-based languages being used in the Enterprise at that point.
by iand 13y ago
Java stepped into a natural void. There weren't many safe GC-based languages being used in the Enterprise at that point.
- leoc 13y agoYes, but there were several waiting in the wings. In the early '90s lots of people were expecting a GCed language - Smalltalk or Dylan or Self or CL or ML or ... - to make the breakthrough and become a mainstream application-programming language. Many of them (including Bill Joy) were pretty unhappy when it turned out to be Java that made it big.