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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. Who's the mother? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But, who's the mother? That is the more important question. Anybody can be the father... just look at what Anna Nicole Smith. So, at least lets try to figure out who the mother is... after all, some body had to give birth, right? Or, is this just asexual reproduction, as is common with the slashdot crowed?

  2. 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!

  3. The Question that's on everybody's minds by Viper+Daimao · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why did your emplyees ejactulate into my grandmother's milkshake?

    --
    "In the game of life, someone always has to lose. To me, if life were fair, that someone would always be Oklahoma." -DKR
  4. bit34 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    conducted at MIT how it 3as suuposed

  5. 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.