James Gosling
James Gosling
James Arthur Gosling, OCis a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language...
code-quality quality code
An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.
aware compatible pc shipping windows
I am aware of no PC manufacturer that is presently shipping a second, compatible JVM on their Windows systems,
admitted attendance extensions language microsoft unilateral
One of the Microsoft representatives in attendance admitted that unilateral language extensions would be detrimental and said that Microsoft 'wouldn't be cowboys' by unilaterally introducing such extensions in their implementation of Java.
engineers
We want to get engineers to think about something else.
ability agreed among attended damage extending hurt including injure java language meeting microsoft platform product run software tools whatever
All of us who attended the meeting -- including Microsoft -- unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors, and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished,
answer everybody services web
I think everybody has a different answer for what Web services are.
html language life soap
SOAP and XML have often been characterized as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) for silicon-based life forms. An HTML that is readable by software,
eye google oracles
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.
running hurt tools
All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished.
mean thinking years
In the Java world, security is not viewed as an add-on a feature. It is a pervasive way of thinking. Those who forget to think in a secure mindset end up in trouble. But just because the facilities are there doesn't mean that security is assured automatically. A set of standard practices has evolved over the years. The Secure Coding Standard for Java is a compendium of these practices. These are not theoretical research papers or product marketing blurbs. This is all serious, mission-critical, battle-tested, enterprise-scale stuff.
people use world
You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries. And so we expect that the big enterprise people will just do that and we will certainly be providing binaries that have been through full industrial-strength QA, that have been through all the conformance testing.
thinking html people
It makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML.
java today would-be
If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala
careers interesting people
I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.