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0 pointskllrnohj6y ago0 comments

See also everyone (including Oracle) that copied Perl 5's regular expression API, and typically even say that straight in their own documentation (again, including Java's).

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onlyrealcuzzo6y ago

How does Java not copy much of C's API / syntax and type system -- which I'm sure is mostly copied from something else.

It's turtles all the way down.

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0 pointskllrnohj6y ago0 comments

See also everyone (including Oracle) that copied Perl 5's regular expression API, and typically even say that straight in their own documentation (again, including Java's).

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onlyrealcuzzo6y ago

How does Java not copy much of C's API / syntax and type system -- which I'm sure is mostly copied from something else.

It's turtles all the way down.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse