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		goatlover on Sept 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014) Also since Simula proceeded Smalltalk, and C++ is inspired by Simula, and Java by C++.

pjmlp on Sept 15, 2022 [–]

I always take a point to address the "Java coding in C++", as what actually happened was Java adopting what was the C++ approach to library development before Oak turned into Java.

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