Suppose that's why we couldn't change the bundled version of Java! On Tuesday, 17 April 2012 12:52:00 UTC+1, Mark Derricutt wrote: > > On 17/04/12 11:43 PM, Phil Maskell wrote: > > I didn't realise it was a smalltalk app though. > > It was an off-shoot of Visual-Age Smalltalk, trying to jump onto the young > and upcoming Java ecosystem. I remember reading that Eclipse was (in part) > originally intended to be a java based reimagining of VAJ. > > Interesting, Wikipedia says " VisualAge for Java was based on an extended > Smalltalk virtual machine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine>which > executed both Smalltalk and Java byte > codes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_code>. Java natives were > actually implemented in Smalltalk." > > I didn't realize it's Java was actually implemented IN Smalltalk - that > explains a lot :) >
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