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		brazzy on Oct 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PG: The hundred-year language Still, without the widespread success of Java, the JVM as we know it would not exist or would at least not have seen widespread adoption. Thus all languages running on it are, if not sons and daughters, at least nieces and nephews of Java.

pavelludiq on Oct 17, 2009 [–]

Actually, clojure sounds more like the dude that lives in java's basement, and uses java's bathroom.

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