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Jackpot - James Gosling's Latest Project
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."
It will be coming real soon. Can't wait.
You're talking about James Goslin, right?
What you meant to say was CRACKPOT!
THe only thing gayer than Java used to be Rob Malda. Now there's 2 things gayer than Java.
The article has some good insights into code visualization, technical writing, and making your programs more understandable.
For code visualization and making your programs more understandable, don't use JAVA!
Technical writing is good. Always document your code so that a mentally retarded 6 year old can understand what you mean.
Adversely, it'll probably be 5 or 10 years before a completely working Java port exists for FreeBSD. FreeBSD of all things. Used on some of the biggest websites out there, yet no official java port.
So much for cross-platform capability.
Gosling likes idea of open source Java
"Try as they will, and try as they might, who steals me gold won't live through the night." from Leprechaun the movie 1993
[singing while bouncing a pogo stick on a man's chest] "This old Lep, he played one. He played pogo on his lung." from Leprechaun the movie 1993
Interestingly enough, that's exactly what your mother said last night when she reached into my pants.
http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php ?memo_id=1321
Time to move on guys.
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Subject: Retiring the scoopizoid site.
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I'm going to retire scoop.giz. People are right about the geekizoid name forever being associated with crap.
We will go back up with a new domain name at some point in the future when I find something I like. Any suggestions on a name?
Scott
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.
Less is more !