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Sun's Phipps Slams App Engine's Java Support

Posted by samzenpus on from the you're-both-pretty dept.

narramissic writes "Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, said in an April 11 blog post that Google committed a major transgression by only including support for a subset of Java classes in its App Engine development platform. 'Whether you agree with Sun policing it or not, Java compatibility has served us all very well for over a decade,' Phipps wrote. 'That includes being sure as a developer that all core classes are present on all platforms. Creating subsets of the core classes in the Java platform was forbidden for a really good reason, and it's wanton and irresponsible to casually flaunt the rules.' Phipps characterized his remarks as non-official, saying: 'This isn't something I could comment on on Sun's behalf. My personal comments come purely from my long association with Java topics.'"

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  1. Re:do their own then... by knewter · · Score: 3, Funny

    bahahahaha. Sun? Money?

    You've not been here long, eh? :)

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  2. "Flout", not "flaunt" by beanyk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Grr.

  3. Flout not Flaunt by onkelonkel · · Score: 4, Funny

    The word is flout not flaunt. English is harder than it looks.

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  4. Java compatibility has served us all very well for by Gutboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    COBOL compatibility has served us all very well for over a decade, and to develop new programming languages is wanton and irresponsible.

  5. "Wonton", not "wanton" by FrankDrebin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mmm.

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