Posted by
CowboyNeal
on from the eye-to-the-future dept.
newdaemon writes "Fortune
has a candid
interview
with Bill Joy about what he plans to do after leaving Sun and his opinions on many other topics, including his strong dislike of the C programming language and how the internet could evolve to take care of the problem of spam and viruses."
Writing everything in Java [a programming language created by Sun] will help, because stuff written in antique programming languages like C [a widely used language created by Bell Labs in the early 1970s] is full of holes. Those languages weren't designed for writing distributed programs to be used over a network. Yet that's what Microsoft still uses. But even Java doesn't prevent people from making stupid mistakes.
Java underappreciated?
by
defile
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· Score: 0, Troll
We did provide people with tools like Java to build more safe and reliable services on the network. But Java has been underappreciated because, once again, it was a solution to a problem people had heard about but had not felt viscerally
What's he talking about "underappreciated"? Sun refused to let a standards group take it over. Sun refused (and may still refuse, I haven't checked) to even open source it.
And it's not until I'm sitting in front of a 2,4GHz workstation that Java applets load and run reasonably.
Way to go about changing the world. What he really means is that they weren't able to take Microsoft's place as monopolist.
For everyone who whines and blames Microsoft for their failures, you can point to a company that was competing with a shittier product or a greedier mentality.
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Writing everything in Java [a programming language created by Sun] will help, because stuff written in antique programming languages like C [a widely used language created by Bell Labs in the early 1970s] is full of holes. Those languages weren't designed for writing distributed programs to be used over a network. Yet that's what Microsoft still uses. But even Java doesn't prevent people from making stupid mistakes.
Yeah, whatever...>eyeroll
Yesterday I had my tech guy come to the house and disconnect my Sun network, and tomorrow I'm having them shut down my company e-mail account.
you would think that a man of his position and career would know how to do such simple things. maybe it's a good thing he's leaving sun after all.
> "I allege that SCO is full of it" -Linus
...is an antique.
We did provide people with tools like Java to build more safe and reliable services on the network. But Java has been underappreciated because, once again, it was a solution to a problem people had heard about but had not felt viscerally
What's he talking about "underappreciated"? Sun refused to let a standards group take it over. Sun refused (and may still refuse, I haven't checked) to even open source it.
And it's not until I'm sitting in front of a 2,4GHz workstation that Java applets load and run reasonably.
Way to go about changing the world. What he really means is that they weren't able to take Microsoft's place as monopolist.
For everyone who whines and blames Microsoft for their failures, you can point to a company that was competing with a shittier product or a greedier mentality.