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by fredoralive 591 days ago
Apple got aboard the Java hype train with early versions of Mac OS X, they added a bridge so that you could write Cocoa apps with it, so the calculator is presumably a case of them dogfooding it. It didn't catch on. The bridge stuff was dropped after a while, and then built in Java was dropped just before the Mac App Store was launched.
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Yep. It felt pretty even back then, where you could choose either. Get it? Java and Cocoa...