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sharednothing on Dec 27, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Year Of Scala

The fact remains that the JVM was designed for Java and mirrors its semantics.

The "shortcoming" of Java is due to none other than the JVM:

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/DynTypeLang/...

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