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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).


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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