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		young_unixer on Jan 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? If Java had true garbage collection, it would collect itself.

drran on Jan 21, 2021 [–]

Java is written in C, so it cannot.

mirekrusin on Jan 21, 2021 | [–]

Truffle went meta and they have java in java now, which gives some nice things.

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