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		the_why_of_y on Feb 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduction to the Common Language Runtime (2007) You mean it could become as awesome as the HotSpot JVM, which was originally based on the StrongTalk VM for SmallTalk, which was in turn based on the Self implementation from Sun Labs? (hint: Lars Bak worked on all of the above) http://www.strongtalk.org/ http://www.selflanguage.org/

k__ on Feb 8, 2015 [–]

I don't know how much hacks he had to use for the JVM and V8 that could be left out in the CLR.

AFAIK he didn't create those things from scratch, he had to use the Java, SmallTalk, Self and JavaScript specs that were already out in the wild.

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