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"Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle
Thrashing Rage writes "James Gosling has confirmed he is leaving Sun/Oracle: 'Yes, indeed, the rumors are true: I resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd). I apologize to everyone in St. Petersburg who came to TechDays on Thursday expecting to hear from me. I really hated not being there. As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good. The hardest part is no longer being with all the great people I've had the privilege to work with over the years. I don't know what I'm going to do next, other than take some time off before I start job hunting.'"
Looking for a job? Get in line, buddy.
I don't think James is going to be job "hunting"... Unless it is the kind of hunting where you stay at home and accept "applications" from prospective employers.
as a rigger on Ellison's boat.
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
"just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good"? I'm gonna guess he wasn't a fan of the merger....
-chris
for him to brush up on his vb.net skills
and maybe he should get some ms access experience
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Finally long super volatile import Ellison break instanceof native abstract class Glosling.
What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
Cue fat lady!!
unlike your job at burger king, he would have plenty of money put away to not have to worry about unemployment checks.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Is he quitting? Will he leave all his stuff behind for garbage collectors to pick up? Or will he clean up after him by hand?
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
It depends on whether any of his coworkers use him as a reference.
Is he quitting? Will he leave all his stuff behind for garbage collectors to pick up? Or will he clean up after him by hand?
Unfortunately, his garbage collector is non-deterministic.
(most notably Josh Bloch, who really had more to do with the Java APIs in their current form than any one person)
You mean Josh Bloch is to Java APIs what Alan Smithee is to films?
(I'm sorry; I have nothing against Java, but your sentence was just too funny to pass up.)
tasks(723) drafts(105) languages(484) examples(29106)
Continuing the Java tradition, you mean?
Game! - Where the stick is mightier than the sword!
Yeah but he doesn't have a freezer full of Whoppers
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
But then Anders Hejlsberg will have him encased in carbonite and mounted on his office wall as a trophy.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
java.lang.PointersAreNotAllowedException
at org.slashdot.javascript.JokeFactory.initGlobal(JokeFactory.java:207)
at joke.dynamics.Woosh.execute(Woosh.java:17)
at joke.Main.loadDynamics(Unknown Source)
at joke.Main.go(Unknown Source)
at joke.Main.access$0(Unknown Source)
at joke.Main$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
HR would take one look at that and say "This guy must be joking, he didn't invent coffee" and then toss the resume in the circular file.
They asked for his help but he refused to even give any pointers.
I recall this now that GP mentions it. What happened was that he turned up at the interview address, saw that the sign on the building said Microsoft, and left in a rage, screaming something about "time wasters". ;)