Comment by astrange
2 days ago
Java is based on Objective-C/Smalltalk, not on C++. It's strictly worse than its original too. There's a lot to be said for the rule of least power, but it's not nearly powerful enough.
2 days ago
Java is based on Objective-C/Smalltalk, not on C++. It's strictly worse than its original too. There's a lot to be said for the rule of least power, but it's not nearly powerful enough.
It’s irrelevant what it is based on. Those are the words of James Gosling.
> It's strictly worse than its original too.
Tell me more of those exiting stories. I’d like to hear them.
Well for one thing, ObjC has messaging and value types! Wait, that's two things.