From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T06:00:56+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Is C# just Java renamed? WAS: IronRuby...will it be like J++?

John Lam (DLR) wrote:
> BTW, I'm fairly certain that you can't do this in Java today, but I could be mistaken.

Both are possible, along with other weird and wild things, through many 
third-party libraries for Java and non-standard JVM extensions. The 
difference is that they're not baked into standard Java, so they're 
generally not thought of as features of Java. C# and .NET in general 
include a lot of things as standard that are generally relegated to 
third-party libraries (often several incarnations) on the Java platform.

Of course, everything's possible everywhere; it's just a matter of how 
easy it is to get at.

- Charlie