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James Gosling Appointed to the Order of Canada
Andrija Ifkovic writes "James Gosling, the creator of Java language and a VP of Sun has been appointed to the Order of Canada. 'The Order of Canada recognizes outstanding lifetime achievement and contributions to society and the country by Canadians from all walks of life.' This is the highest honor Canada can bestow upon its citizens."
Why is James Gosling is receiving the OoC?
I was just looking through the Java source and it says "// Author: Joyce Hatto"
Trolling is a art,
Highest honor? Bah! Stanley Cup tickets are the highest honor that can be bestoyed upon any real Canadian.
Can you blame them?
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Look everybody, Canada is a country too! They have awards and everything!
So now we get to blame Canada for Java too? Woohoo! Is there nothing they are not at fault for?
Fast, cheap & reliable. Pick two.
How many other language inventors are Canadian?
For making Java, he should have been deported, though.
Take off, eh! You hoser! Bob and Doug rock, and Strange Brew was one of the best cult films in Canadian history.
Who is John Galt?
Pam's from up here. At least we're not responsible for Anna though. Only the USA could produce a trainwreck of that magnitude.
Well, no. See for well over a century we have been an independant country up here in Canada. Yes, we are still a member of the Commonwealth (along with a lot of other countries you might know like Australia and New Zealand etc), and the Queen is still a symbolic head of the Commonwealth, but we are a completely independant country with our own Constitution, Laws and everything. In practice the Queen has zero political power in Canada, its all symbolic and traditional nothing more. Thus we have our own awards.
:)
The thing is, most of us don't see that as a bad thing, whereas you US folks have this pre-conditioned distrust of Royalty for some unfathomable reason - probably something to do with that whole "Tea" issue in Boston way back when. I admit it, the King made a mistake back then OK?. If you would just get over that though, I am sure we could let you back into the Commonwealth
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That's France not Canada
man...I'm crushing my Karma with political commentary today :(
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As someone who spent the better part of a day trying to get Eclipse, Swing, Tomcat, and the JDK set up, I think he should have had the medal pinned to his scrotum.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Rather than giving Gosling the order of Canada, wouldn't it be better form for Gosling and Canada to extend a common implementation of Comparable?
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
So now it's called 'Janada', or something.
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