This may not be 100% literally true, but it is definitely true in spirit. (The previous poster is referring to Lars Bak, but both Hotspot and V8 are/were team efforts.) The family tree here is:
OK, you got me on that one. I've been a professional Smalltalk programmer for almost 20 years and I've never heard of the Resilient Smalltalk Embedded Platform.
aka OOVM it took a novel and interesting approach - use Eclipse as the IDE to edit text files (there was a syntax for class definition) and sync bytecode with an image on a remote device through tcpip.
