-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/20/10 08:53 , Michael Neale wrote: > oh I wasn't thinking it was a slip of the tongue - it was always > recited as if if it was beaten into him, perhaps with an early model > android phone as the beating stick. > > I was just curious as to why they would make that point - as it being > source? perhaps it is to get around the java TCK issue and calling it > java? > > anyway, just curious. As usual, things have different perspectives and Dick has got for sure his reasons. Technically I second the point that there is the .jar passage, not only because this means that you can use existing compilers of other languages, but also because you can use (static) bytecode manipulators off the shelf, for instance as the Maven shade plugin (that I found useful for some stuff).
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