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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. Re:Where will Java be in five years? by TWR · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Um, you are aware of a little think called J2EE, right? Java on the server is pretty much where the action is: servlets, JSPs, EJBs, JDBC, JMS.

    What are you using for web development?

    -jon

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  2. Java features by ilyag · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can't say I found a lot of information in the article... Still, here are some questions about the design of the language:

    1) Why are classes like Integer so weird? It is such a pain to, for example, increment them... Change of this would conflict with absence of operator overloading, true (I don't like that too much either, but at least can imagine why it's (not) there). However, why not make them magical like String's "+"?

    2) Several times I got caught on the fact that there is no way to pass an int by reference. And I don't like Integer (see aboive)...

    3) One (public) class per file. This especially bugs me with small interfaces. Such a waste of screen space and disk space (each file takes up 4k on the file system)... Why not allow to put a hierarchy of interfaces (and, preferably, classes) in one file?

    This wasn't intended to be troll, even if it looks and feels like one. ;)

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  3. Does anyone understand... by Glock27 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    the dynamic that has made Java grow exponentially in 'real' software development, and become the dominant teaching language versus the constant bashing it receives here on Slashdot and among OSS people?

    Java is actually very good, and yes, very fast. I fail to understand why anyone would prefer Microsoft's poor imitation. Java is still growing very fast and getting better all the time.

    Ignore it at your peril. Or better yet, just laugh at it...that is until you're in the unemployment line because you don't know it.

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