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Interview With James Gosling

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday May 1, 2002 @08:48AM 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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Java as ECMA standard? by revscat · 2002-05-01 09:03 · Score: 5, Interesting

From the article:

JDC: Is it possible to submit the Java [technology] bytecode specification to a standards body like ECMA [and the like]?

JG: Well, we actually tried to do that; to submit it to ECMA. And that exploded and turned into a rather bizarre episode. And actually, after that exploded, ECMA did an internal investigation and published a report, which is very interesting reading.

Does anyone know what he's talking about? I saw this interview a while ago and have looked around in vain for the report he mentions. This would certainly be interesting, especially if, as I somehow suspect, Microsoft did something to prevent Java from becoming a standard.