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."

Comments

Disappoining

[igrek]

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 ;)

Re:interesting quotes..

[SirRichardPumpaloaf]

if (boss_says_so)
{
assert(1>2);
}
exit(0);

Using business logic this program will successfully complete?

similarities

[Entropy_ah]

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.