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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. Modified Godwin's Law by MagikSlinger · · Score: 4, Funny
    Oh yeah. In my ANSI Common Lisp book. Something about the real power of Lisp being that everything, including the program itself is just a tree structure.

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

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    The bitter lessons of a veteran coder: http://bitterprogrammer.blogspot.com
  2. Just Great by sammyo · · Score: 4, Funny

    When you googled for something *java* it was anoying enough to deal with stupid $tarbuck$
    links, with 'Jackpot' an unlucky click and it might take 20 min to undo the popdowns, offers for the *best internet casino*... and oh my gawd, add to the wrong mail list!

    (I was going to add an example link but I wouldn't do that to my worst enemy)