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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. length by billnapier · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's short, but informative.
    Unlike the text of this submission, which is only one of those.
  3. Huh? by swagr · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the JDC interviewed James Gosling. Surely he [has] contributed to the JDC and has a log in, thus making him a part of the JDC collective...

    Next week on Slashdot: Taco interviews himself.

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    1. Re:Huh? by tswinzig · · Score: 5, Funny

      So the JDC interviewed James Gosling. Surely he [has] contributed to the JDC and has a log in, thus making him a part of the JDC collective...

      Next week on Slashdot: Taco interviews himself.

      The difference is this interview is interesting, and James Gosling knows how to spell.

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  4. Short, informative, and funny! by foobar104 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This interview is worth reading if only to get a laugh out of the way Sun's marketroids obviously sanitized it. In at attempt to make the text of the interview (which is just a transcript of a spoken exchange, after all) comply with Sun's trademark guidelines, they ended up with sentences like this:

    So, personally, you could delete [the] JDBC [API] from [the] J2SE [platform] and it would not affect any code that I've ever written.

    And this:

    That would make [the] Java [programming language] much more flexible.

    And this:

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

    Sheesh. This interview was brought to you by the letters "[" and "]".

  5. Java as ECMA standard? by revscat · · 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.

  6. [The] editing [job] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think [that] the [person who acted in the capacity of the] editor [of this article] who keeps [repeatedly] butting in [to the questions and answers] for no [descernable] reason [or benefit] should just shut [the f*ck] up.

  7. 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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  8. Questions left unanswered... by Bonker · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Why is Java so damn slow?

    2. Why do so many Java developers get so upset when you point out how damn slow Java really is?

    3. Why is it so much fun to pick on Java developers when there really are slower languages out there?

    4. If you could make Java fast, would you voluntarily leave it slow just so we could give Java developers apoplexy by mentioning how fast even PHP is for certain tasks?

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  9. 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."