[__alexs]

> Hans Boehm built a Java library for this in the 1980s and 90s

Hans is such a prolific programmer that he wrote a Java library before Java was even invented?

[tomjakubowski]

The article has so many of the hallmarks of LLM writing, naturally it will have some hallucinated factoids too. "What that gives you: [bullet list]", "What got ported: [bullet list]", "foo: x, y, just z"

Boehm's Java library has copyright dates of 1999 and 2001-2004. https://www.hboehm.info/new_crcalc/CR.java

The whitepaper was only published in 2005: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156783260...

I have a dimview now of the blog, and of this Swift port of the library, indeed.

[dimview]

Thank you. Of course the dates were out of order. The Java library (com.hp.creals) is 1999-2004, paper is from 2005. Unfortunate price of LLM-assisted development. Corrected.

[nxobject]

Well, you know, you go into your Smalltalk-80 workstation for a hack sesh, and an all-nighter later you end up with an implementatkon of Swing...