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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. Re:Why yet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Java is 54% of the corporate market for enterprise applications.

    What a coincedence. Many of the machines at work require 54 different JRE versions to be installed!

  2. Ruby Too Slow for Java by Siker · · Score: 0, Troll

    "So things like Ruby and PHP are really good for generating web pages. But as soon as you go beyond that, you get into trouble. And with so many enterprise applications, the web page is sort of the skin on the outside of the real application. And mostly scripting languages don't do the high-performance, large-scale computing very well." Because we all know how fast Java is. Just zips along really.