Musing out loud... [Why not Smalltalk?]

[Reality is a point of view]

 +---- clayberg at instantiations.com wrote (Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:02:17 -0400):
 | Then explain why Sun bought Anamorphic and their HotSpot technology for
 | *several* tens of millions of dollars. If Sun already had all this in house,
 +----

Patent.

Maybe staff?

Sun paid a lot more than 10M for that little Linux box company!

Why not Smalltalk?  Because the licensing sucks.

Why not Objective C?  Because stack cracking sucks.

Why not Python?  Um . . . because the : is superfluous?

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