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Interviews: Ask James Gosling About Java and Ocean Exploring Robots

Posted by samzenpus on from the ask-away dept.

James Gosling is probably best known for creating the Java programming language while working at Sun Microsystems. Currently, he is the chief software architect at Liquid Robotics. Among other projects, Liquid Robotics makes the Wave Glider, an autonomous, environmentally powered marine robot. James has agreed to take a little time from the oceangoing robots and answer any questions you have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

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  1. Life span of JAVA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In terms of code development, it is a long way to look back to the days of Pascal and VAX. Someday we likely will look back at JAVA in the same way. Have the limits of JAVA been reached and do you see that day of obsolescence as being sooner than later?

  2. Language feature redesign by BigApe99 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What one feature of the Java language would you go back and do differently if you could?

  3. Oracle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What do you think of Oracle's stewardship of Java so far?