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		pjmlp on June 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) I read somewhere that the inspiration for Java interfaces came from Objective-C protocols.

huxley on June 10, 2015 [–]

Patrick McNaughton thought so too:

"I'm pretty sure that Java's 'interface' is a direct rip-off of Obj-C's 'protocol' which was largely designed by these ex-NeXT'ers"

http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

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