The answer to which is yes they could and the
result would not
be Java.
There is no valid reason why Google could not have renamed
Object as Root and replaced Class with Thing and make every
Dalvik Thing
extend from Root rather than Object.
What you would get would no longer
be Java and nor would it
contain the SSO, and many aspects of the
toolchain/platform
would have to be redone, but it *can* be
done.
I am suggesting that would be a pointless exercise.
Worse, it is not helpful to suggest someone would do such a
ridiculous thing.
It would be a new language. There is then
no point in talking about it at the
same time as you talk
about Java.
and many aspects of the
toolchain/platform
would have to be redone
Redone? No -
replaced! You wouldn't begin with the JDK.
You wouldn't download Java SE. What
you are left with bears
no relationship at all to Java - not the language, not
the
tool chain, not the documentation.
Suppose you want to build a
bicycle, but I complian that
I have the copyright on bicycles. Yes - I said
copyright!
Like Oracle thinks they have a copyright on the purely
functional
API.
So you build a bicycle, and I take you to court, saying
you have
infringed my copyright. Then the judge asks - could
you have built a bicycle
without using Gringo's design? So
we could all suggest you could have used 4
wheels instead of
two, and you could have used a motor instead of my
copyrighted peddle arrangement, and you could have used a
steering wheel
rather than my copyrighted handle bars....
So somebody shouts - but
that's not a bicycle you built!
It's a car. And somebody else says no - it was
possible to
built a bicycle without infringing Gringo's copyright - I
just
proved it. At this point, Gringo tears his hair out.
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