Smart People in the News: Rheingold, Gosling

Roland Piquepaille writes "In "How Will "Smart Mobs" Play Out?," BusinessWeek asked questions to Howard Rheingold, who published the "Smart Mobs" book at the end of 2002. Rheingold talks about the emergence of the picturephone, especially outside the U.S. He adds that future business applications for smart mobs might start anywhere in the world, like "finding out about the spot labor market in [an] African village." For his part, James Gosling, the leading guy behind the Java programming language, is interviewed by Red Herring, in Social smarts. He talks about the social implications of the Internet by looking at the Brazilian National Medical System. Gosling also talks about the entertainment industry which deeply hates Internet, and about the open source movement, of which he is a big fan. And of course, that leads him to talk about Microsoft. This summary contains some excerpts of both interviews."

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Inventor of Pascal?

[Siener]

Pascal was written by Niklaus Wirth. He was a professor at ETH Zurich until 1999, and then retired.

I can find no reference about him ever doing work for Microsoft. I also doubt that he would - he has always been a very strong apponent of bloatware.

Is the parent post a troll, or just badly mistaken?

Re:Inventor of Pascal?

[Zan Zu from Eridu]

You probably mean Anders Hejlsberg, who created Turbo Pascal, then created Delphi, and finally went to Microsoft to create C# for them.

Re:Inventor of Pascal?

[Zan Zu from Eridu]

Nope, read the wikipedia link. Hejlsberg created it as Blue Label Pascal for the Nascom-2 mini, ported it to CP/M and DOS and sold it as Compass Pascal and later as Poly Pascal. Kahn bought the rights for Borland and they finally sold it as Turbo Pascal.