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Gosling on Computing

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the teco-shoutouts dept.

CowboyRobot writes "ACM Queue has Eric Allman (creator of Sendmail) interviewing James Gosling (creator of Java) and the conversation covers many aspects of computing today, including the state of security, comparisons of languages and OSs, and the future of virtual machines. 'At the lowest level, you have to know that the boundaries around the piece of software are completely known and contained. So, for example, in Java, you can't go outside the bounds of an array. Ever. Period. Turning off array subscripting is not an option.'"

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  1. [OT] Sendmail Vs Exim by HogynCymraeg · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've been "advised" to move our servers away from sendmail to Exim. Has anyone had experience of doing this? I'd be interested to hear the pros and cons.