11 Sep
2001
11 Sep
'01
10:02 a.m.
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Is Java really a "clean OO design from smalltalk"? Is there a non-trivial superclass which is an ancestor of everything? int?
yes, and no ;).. everything is derived from an Object, with the exception of the datatypes (int, float, double) but there are objects which encompass these (Integer, Double, Float)
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These Java programmers of Scheme are probably trying to counteract the problems, for there are many: Java still doesn't have closures, continuations, first-class procedures...
This may be true, but how many of us know what those mean, how many of us care ;) Sz
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