Eh. Java was released in 1995. Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit was published in 1996. The big selling point for java in the beginning was write-once-run-everywhere. Being a GCed language was also a selling point, but that is distinct from memory safety as a selling point.
Eh. Java was released in 1995. Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit was published in 1996. The big selling point for java in the beginning was write-once-run-everywhere. Being a GCed language was also a selling point, but that is distinct from memory safety as a selling point.