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Interview With James Gosling

Posted by Hemos on from the learning-more-about-hjava dept.

Def Mango Raygun writes "There is an interview with James Gosling of Sun. He talks about some language features and why they happened. It's short, but informative"

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  1. more information by flynt · · Score: 5, Informative

    James has a homepage here, for your perusal. There are some really interesting things on it, like the fact he is Canadian and likes pies in Bill Gate's face to name a few.

  2. JavaWorld story by lseltzer · · Score: 5, Informative
    Sun's announcement that they were withdrawing from the ECMA process was in December '99.

    The March 2000 JavaWorld has an interview with ECMA officials that, as Gosling says, makes for interesting reading:

    • ECMA responded by chastising Sun for causing an "enormous waste of experts' time and companies' money." In an interview today, a top ECMA official said Sun's criticisms of the group are merely a smokescreen for its real motives for ending the relationship.

    • "They just don't want to give up control" of Java, said Jan van den Beld, secretary-general of ECMA. "It is 100 percent my opinion that Sun is publicly saying they want to make Java a standard, but privately not making it happen."