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2004/03/16

Guy Steele about Java: Aren't You Happy?

Tayssir John Gabbour pointed to a posting by Guy Steele on the ll1-discuss mailing list.
And you're right: 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. Aren't you happy?

--Guy Steele

Can you see the fnords? I can smell a retcon establishing itself here.

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Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars - posted by The Fishbowl - 2004/3/17 04:46:43
I was honestly planning to make some kind of point here, but I seem to have lost it on the way.


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