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

Why Gosling?

[grub]

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

Highest Honor

[whisper_jeff]

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

Re:Congrats

[Anonymous Coward]

While the Order of Canada is indeed prestigious to Canadian citizens, it's sometimes hard to take it 100% seriously as a huge honor when Bob and Doug Mackenzie (Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis) also received the same reward for their "contributions to Canadian Culture"

Why don't you first strip Mick Jagger of his knighthood and then we'll talk about taking things seriously.

Re:Blame Canada!

[Anonymous Coward]

Is there nothing they are not at fault for?

Dangling prepositions. That's all you.

Re:Yeah, yeah, we see you up there...

[Tackhead]

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

It's not even a real VM anyway.

Freedom Medal

[javamann]

As opposed to our 'Freedom Medal' which you get if you really fu*k up badly.

Re:For Java?

[Tim C]

When was this? Java has been a download, 'double-click, click "next" a few times to install' affair for years. At most you might need to add the path to the bin directory to your path (it's been so long since I installed Java on a fresh machine that I forget).

Swing doesn't take any "setting up", it's a core API.

Tomcat runs pretty-much out of the box, although porting web-apps to it from other servlet containers can be problematic (especially if you foolishly use container-specific extensions).

Eclipse can be troublesome in that the website doesn't make it entirely clear what it is you should be downloading. As long as you get it right, however (and it's not really that hard, certainly much easier than it used to be) then you just extract it and double-click the executable to run it.

Now I'll grant that perhaps you might have trouble integrating Eclipse and Tomcat (as I've never tried it I can't comment), and you'd certainly have trouble trying to use Swing in a web-app, but without more detail I really can't see where on Earth you could be going wrong.