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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. Another James Gosling interview by ChrisRijk · · Score: 1, Troll


    Gosling likes idea of open source Java

  2. Internal Sun Memo criticizes Java performance by schouwl · · Score: 0, Troll

    http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php ?memo_id=1321 Time to move on guys.

  3. The guy is psyco by axxackall · · Score: 0, Troll
    Look at Gosling's homepage, especially what he wrote for the picture, where he hits Bill Gates' mask with a cake:

    Of course, I couldn't resist joining in the fun. This is a picture of me opening JavaOne'98 about to pie one of the stage hands wearing a Bill Gates mask.

    It just proves that on a top of Sun management, their major beleif is in hate. They hate enimies: the other Unix companies, Microsoft, now Linux.

    I don't love Microsoft either, but I would consider myself as a psyco if I would dream of hitting the face of Bill Gates with a cake.

    Now, why are we listening to him? What kind of smart ideas are in his proposals? Generic programming with self-reflections? It's done for decades in Lisp and MOP. Syntax-free programming language? It's alreadydone in FlatCurry (Curry is LP ancestor of FP language Haskell).

    What he is done? Besides Java, everything else he's invented is dead. Java is designed conceptually so badly that it survives only due to a huge money investment from Sun. All his dreams about Java on the thin-client side are dead: web-designers prefer Flash rather than Java Applets. SWING is dead. The only place where Java is still demanded (by whom? by non-programming hype-addicted managers?) is the server room with Solaris servers (no wonder, huh?).

    By the way, he was one of who killed Tcl (the best scripting language of that time (1995) b/c it was extremely extensible, i.e. OOP, FP, tcl2c, extensions), by kicking out the project of John Osterought, the Tcl inventor who worked for Sun that time.

    Now all he is doing is reading old (and thus not very well known among the public) LISP/MOP books as well as academic FlatCurry papers (also not very well known) and stealing ideas for his Jackpod project.

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    Less is more !