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James Gosling On .NET And The Anti-Trust Trial
gwernol writes: "There's a short but interesting interview with James Gosling over on ComputerWorld. He talks about the differences between J2EE and .NET and also about the Microsoft anti-trust trial. Some interesting perspectives from the founder of Java."
Well it's typical Microsoft tactics - if they see something they like they either :-
a) buy the company
or b) come up with something extremely similar.
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And, I mean, the fact that the syntax [of C#] is so much -- is like exactly the same, or just about exactly the same [as that of Java].
Kind of like how Java is just about exactly the same as, say, C++?
In other news, Mandrake accused of ripping off RedHat, Mrs. Torvalds accused of ripping of Charles Schulz
Yes, and C# is certainly a mockery:))
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What a disappointing interview... Could you expect something as boring as this from, say, Larry Wall? Never. Or when Stroustrup criticizes Java, he has some valid (and interesting) arguments. But I have not found any insights in this Gosling interview. Microsoft sucks and J2EE rules. How interesting.
;)
The funny thing is that he says
1) They copied everything from Java
2) They could add clever things to their language, but they didn't
Well, at least, he's honest about Java
> Why would he be relieved that MS puts out
> mediocre stuff?
Two words: "Stock options".
Here's another, perhaps less mercenary, but also
less rational, explanation:
Many anarchists vote for the worst candidate, on
the theory that when gov't becomes bad enough, it
will be eliminated.
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if (boss_says_so)
{
assert(1>2);
}
exit(0);
Using business logic this program will successfully complete?
I think Gosling is the best source of information on C# and Java. After all, he invented both languages.
One of my friends and I were at a microsoft user group (i'm not a member, i was just there for my free copy of windows xp :) meeting a few months ago, and he is a java fanatic, and there were showing some C# source code. My friend is a really smart guy, and he looks at it for a second, and says, "that would probably compile under java." and a few seconds later he said, "Hey, wait a second, that actually would compile under java." Needless to say, i laughed for a while about that one.
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