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by pjmlp 4243 days ago
I used VisualWorks at the university in 1995, just before Java appeared and there were presentations with broken Java code[1].

Eclipse 1.0 was Visual Age for Smalltalk redone in Java.

If Java hadn't appeared in the scene, maybe even with those cat fights, the language would have become mainstream anyway.

This just speculation from my part.

[1] The famous "private protected" that was accepted in the very first release.

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Technically, Eclipse was Visual Age for Java [only implemented in Smalltalk] redone in Java :-)