Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads

javab0y writes "The folks over at basementcoders did a podcast with James Gosling, The Father of Java, last week at a coffee shop in San Francisco during the JavaOne conference. In a raw and no-holds-barred interview, James let loose on Oracle, the Google Lawsuit, and his experience with IBM. You know its going to be good when he starts out saying, 'I eventually graduated in '83. Went to work for IBM which is, you know, is within the top 10 of my stupidest career decisions I've made.' The podcast was fully transcribed."

Comments

Java is crap

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope he makes a new language called "Foam"... you know, what goes on top of a good cup of coffee?

Oh really?

[AnonymousClown]

This part really impressed me:

So, that particular case is one I've been drawn into over and over again for years. If we could do benchmarks on sine and cosign on intel chips compared to C. We beat C on just about everything except benchmarks on Sine and cosign. It turns out there's a small issue with the way the sine and cosign hardware is implemented in the spec on the intel platform. And we actually work around it in software. For the ranges from plus or minus five, we are close to intel speeds. You get the larger values, where the intel thing rips. So lots of folks who use math on the Java platform because we do it accurately. We put a lot of effort into it.

The thing that I'm not sure about, the part about "benchmarks" - is he also referring to performance, as in, speed?

Re:Oh really?

[Yvan256]

Of course he does. Java can do sine and cosine in 12 parsecs!

Re:Oh really?

[TheGratefulNet]

but if its over $1000, sine will need someone ELSE to co-sign.

(sigh)

Re:Oh really?

[rubycodez]

you went off on a tangent

Re:Times have changed

[Anonymous Coward]

Good luck reaching any IT big wig these days.

That depends.

Steve

Sent from my iToy

Re:It's amazing anyone employs him

[blair1q]

Or you get picked up by companies whose CEOs also think Larry Ellison is a dick.

Meaning Gosling just reduced his range employment choices by 1.

Re:Here's why they will.

[hondo77]

2. This isn't your typical dime a dozen BSCS or BSEE cubical wage slave that be easily replaced.

*sniff* At least my children love me...

Re:Times have changed

[hondo77]

I googled his name on altavista.com...

That's priceless.

Re:Times have changed

[Chris Mattern]

I hear nowadays you can google stuff on bing!

I owe this man alot

[codepunk]

Without James I would only have to maintain half the servers I do today and would likely be out of a job.

Re:Here's why they will.

[mangu]

2. This isn't your typical dime a dozen BSCS or BSEE cubical wage slave that be easily replaced.

*sniff* At least my children love me...

*sniff**2 I don't have children, you insensitive clod!

Re:Podcast link?

[u17]

I'd give you the link, but I haven't found the audio equivalent of goatse yet.

What I want to know is...

[ilikejam]

Did he stop everyone from working while he cleaned out his desk?

Re:Here's why they will.

[Anonymous Coward]

2. This isn't your typical dime a dozen BSCS or BSEE cubical wage slave that be easily replaced.

*sniff* At least my children love me...

Shut up Dad and make me a sandwich. Jesus, what a tedious old fuck...

Re:It's amazing anyone employs him

[cbraescu1]

Or you get picked up by companies whose CEOs also think Larry Ellison is a dick

For example Microsoft - oh, wait...

Re:Here's why they will.

[Mitchell314]

Sorry, but the make_me_a_sandwhich method is private. Children don't inherit that behavior.