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> Parts of it are heavily based on Smalltalk, Objective-C, C++, Simula, Modula-3, and even Lisp.

Very small parts, and very badly implemented. Apart from C++ which is definitely the major influence on Java. The rest boils down to "hey smalltalk is object-oriented and java is object-oriented, so java is based on smalltalk amirite?"

And the answer is no.



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