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James Gosling Appointed to the Order of Canada

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the make-the-bad-man-stop dept.

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."

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  1. Why Gosling? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Why is James Gosling is receiving the OoC?
    I was just looking through the Java source and it says "// Author: Joyce Hatto"

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  2. Highest Honor by whisper_jeff · · Score: 5, Funny

    Highest honor? Bah! Stanley Cup tickets are the highest honor that can be bestoyed upon any real Canadian.

  3. Yeah, yeah, we see you up there... by RumGunner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look everybody, Canada is a country too! They have awards and everything!

    1. Re:Yeah, yeah, we see you up there... by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
      > Look everybody, Canada is a country too! They have awards and everything!

      It's not even a real VM anyway.

    2. Re:Yeah, yeah, we see you up there... by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Argh. How many times do I have to say it - just because it's in Wikipedia doesn't mean it really exists!

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  4. Pamela Anderson too by Erioll · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pam's from up here. At least we're not responsible for Anna though. Only the USA could produce a trainwreck of that magnitude.

  5. Re:Blame Canada! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there nothing they are not at fault for?


    Dangling prepositions. That's all you.

  6. Re:Canada? yeah right by Phrogman · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  7. Design pattern by isomeme · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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