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Jackpot - James Gosling's Latest Project

Posted by michael on from the bingo-eureka dept.

Pete Bevin writes "Artima has a fine interview with James Gosling, creator of Java, about his latest project. It's called Jackpot, and it treats the parse tree as the program. This makes refactoring much, much more intuitive. The article has some good insights into code visualization, technical writing, and making your programs more understandable."

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  1. Re:Modified Godwin's Law by MeerCat · · Score: 4, Flamebait

    As a Slashdot thread on a programming language progresses, the probability of someone claiming that "Lisp already does that" approaches unity.

    If I had mod points I'd mark you up as funny - but have you read and grokked the Meta Object Protocol ?? Because much as I hate Lisp at the lower syntactic levels, I keep on finding that features I like in other languages were actually present in the MOP and similar. That's not to say that other languages don't present the ideas in better and easier-to-use ways, but it still pisses me off that those beardie-weirdie Lisp blokes had already thought of it so much earlier...

    We kill what we fear, and we fear what we don't understand....

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  2. Re:Jackpot! by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    that's also what CmdrTaco said when he fisted Hemos and pulled out a big lump of shit. I won't go into the details of what happened next, but Kathleen fent reported that his toothbrush needed replacing.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  3. Why? by PickyH3D · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Why are we making such a big deal out of him? He created JAVA. Big deal. What has he done that was good for computer programming (in other words, Java was bad for it)? Java created:
    1. Horrible amounts of code
    2. 'Multi-platform code' that isn't always. . .
    3. Extremely slow execution
    4. Slow GUI performance...(someone please mention Eclipse as an anti-argument... then refer to #2).
    5. Nothing new other than forced OOP.
    So what has Java brought us? You can write multi-platform C/C++ code, so what does Java honestly offer that nothing else does? Maybe possibly misinterpreted code because of various JVM versions? That's nice.