[OT] Java generics (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 09:30 am, Chris Angelico wrote:

> "Java" was originally four related, but separate, concepts: a source
> language, a bytecode, a sandboxing system, and one other that I can't
> now remember. 

The virtual machine? Or is that what you mean by bytecode?

The Java Virtual Machine is probably the most successful part of Java, as it
has spawned a whole lot of new languages that are built on the JVM,
including Clojure, Groovy and Scala, as well as JVM implementations of
Python, Ruby, Javascript, Perl6, TCL, Fortran, Oberon, Pascal and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages

One of the more interesting approaches is of Fantom, a new language designed
from the beginning to run on top of any of the JVM, the .Net CLR, or a
Javascript VM.



-- 
Steven