↑ "We looked very carefully at Delphi Object Pascal and built a working prototype of bound method references in order to understand their interaction with the Java programming language and its APIs ... Our conclusion was that bound method references are unnecessary and detrimental to the language. This decision was made in consultation with Borland International, who had previous experience with bound method references in Delphi Object Pascal." (from About Microsoft's "Delegates"Lưu trữ 2012-06-27 tại Wayback Machine. at java.sun.com.
↑ TechMetrix Research (1999). “History of Java” (PDF). Java Application Servers Report. Bản gốc (PDF) lưu trữ ngày 29 tháng 12 năm 2010. The project went ahead under the name "green" and the language was based on an old model of UCSD Pascal, which makes it possible to generate interpretive code
