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."

Comments

The creator of Java gets OoC?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

They should have given it to the president of the CSA: they too have developed a slow language...

An award

[Anonymous Coward]

If I would give James Gosling any kind of award it would be the award for setting computer science back 20 years with Java. I've never met a good programmer who liked Java. Many people are tempted by it's many frameworks (all similar yet buggy and incompatible).

The Java language is really the COBOL of the new millenium. It has become a defacto standard for business app type software with hoardes of unskilled engineers pounding out piles of the stuff. Which I suppose is at least good for the industry in two ways. First, even on modern hardware Java is insanely slow. Second it guarantees maintenance work for the next 30 years of "coupon processing" code.

Re:An award

[Anonymous Coward]

Java is slow when a typical target is a 30MHz embedded processor. It is and always will be slower than statically compiled programs. Yes, there is the possability of a JIT getting better data (more dynamic) about a program to do optimizations. But profile-driven optimization has been around for a while. It exists in GCC. And in practice a well written C program will beat Java almost every time.

Java is a win if you have a well-written Java program against a shitty C program. I'm sorry I have used and dealt with Java many times, I have almost always found a native app beats a Java program easily. Then again, I guess only having 128MB in my desktop makes me just a looser -- I should fix the high pagefault rate Java programs give me by getting better HW?

I love how Java adds the cost of thread synchronization to every object even if they don't need it.

Canada? yeah right

[DNS-and-BIND]

Don't you mean, "This is the highest honor Great Britain can bestow upon its Canadian subjects." From the article:

James Gosling, a vice-president of Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has been named an officer of the Order of Canada, the office of the Governor General announced on Monday.

Besides, the guy only got the rank of Officer in the Order. You'd think that the Queen would consider inventing Java as worthy of the rank of Companion. When will Canada grow up and become a real nation, and ditch that foreigner that's on their money?

Re:Canada? yeah right

[DNS-and-BIND]

Who's the head of state of Canada? "We have our own awards"...nope! This award is bestowed by the Queen (actually her underling in Canada). Get rid of this ridiculous heriditary dictatorship and become a republic, for chrissake.

Re:Why Gosling?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, grub. I just took a shit! It smells just about as good as most Java code. And the texture, it resembles Java code, too!

It was really difficult to get out. It took me about 15 or 20 minutes. Hey! That's how long it takes for the JVM to run a console-based "Hello World!" program! It also consumed all of my energy, just as a tiny Swing app consumes all of a computer's CPU. In terms of size, it was nearly as big as the memory consumption of that tiny Swing app: FUCKING HUGE!

Grub, I can't wait for my Order of Canada!

Nice award!

[Slithe]

Does it come with a coomplementary Kraft Dinner? What about Treasure? Does he have to search for it?