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		kllrnohj on Feb 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight 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).

onlyrealcuzzo on Feb 20, 2020 [–]

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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