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by nradov
541 days ago
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It wouldn't have been particularly hard from a language, standard library, and virtual machine perspective. It would have made converting legacy C++ programmers harder (scarier). Back then the average developer had a higher tolerance for defects because the consequences seemed less severe. It was common to intentionally use null variables to indicate failures or other special meanings. It seemed like a good idea at the time |
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And that, right there, is all the reason they needed back then. Sun wanted C++ developers (and C developers, to some extent) to switch to Java.