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Q&A With James Gosling, Father of Java

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the never-tell-them-you-have-free-time dept.

Minaloush writes to tell us that in a recent Q&A with Sun's James Gosling, the father of Java fielded questions on the GPL, security, the role of Java in the enterprise. "If you come up with a good software development tool, that makes life easier for the developers and they can get their job done quicker, then the first thing the manager says is 'oh you've got free time on your hands. Do this extra thing'."

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  1. Makes you wonder. by LWATCDR · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    VB.NET is nothing like traditional Visual Basic. Your old projects will not recompile under .NET so I have to wonder.
    Why make the effort to move to another Microsoft development system after getting burned.
    I doubt that Java is that much harder for a VB shop to move to than C#. Plus you are not stuck with a one vendor one OS solution.

    Yes I know about Mono but I also know Mono lags behind .NET so compatibility isn't close to what it is for Java.

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  2. What will be next by azareth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have write in my blog what will be the future in developing for me. ahref=http://anthonylait.blogspot.com/rel=url2html -12757http://anthonylait.blogspot.com/>