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by somnium 5653 days ago
They're not fighting over Java, they're fighting over the JVM. Java isn't worth fighting over.
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sharednothing 5653 days ago
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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