Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C

Holy cow, that's my USENET posting. Will have to ask my sysadmin to record the HN spike. I do find it funny reading postings here basically saying that, regardless of what Patrick Naughton said, his language is actually based on C++. Those language creators have some nerve! :-) Reminds me of the Kurt Vonnegut scene in Back to School. Even back in the '90s, when I wrote that as a wee PhD student, it was clear that Java was derivative…

Wow, a pointer to an old page of mine, that's weird to see on HN. This post was originally from comp.sys.newton.misc, back when I was a PhD student. Here was the thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.sys.newton.misc/Kb0Jo... The discussion was originally about Java on the Newton, and someone had made the goofy suggestion that Java was based on NewtonScript. Patrick Naughton jumping in was an interesting ending to the thread. As a side note: four years later I actually wound up writing the only…

Goes to show that just because you model something after another, it doesn't mean they'll look or feel similar. The underlying design of Java might have been influenced by Objective C, but the use of the two languages feel very different.