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Scriptor on Dec 27, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: What languages fix

I know Guy Steele was part of Java's original design committee, but in what ways was Java at all "Lisp's bastard child".

gruseom on Dec 27, 2013 [–]

Steele was brought in to write the spec. He didn't design Java.

In fact, his classic talk "Growing a Language" is among other things a very polite and implicit, but devastating critique of the design of Java.

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