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James Gosling
James Gosling
Canadian Scientist
Born: May 19, 1955
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I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points. James Gosling
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One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities. James Gosling
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The thing that the Microsoft folks did a really good job of is the easy-to-use tools for making application-building simple. James Gosling
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If you look at our customers, our customers tend to be really high-end people who make big, sophisticated systems. James Gosling
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You see people doing Java-based internal applications all over the place, regular desktop applications that are sort of front-ends to the things in the back, or standalone things. James Gosling
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Some of these isolated applications that sit on one machine are a million lines of code. How do you deal with that? Most people have no way to wrap their head around it. James Gosling
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My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency. James Gosling
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I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing. James Gosling
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Renaming a class at one level is really easy; you just change the name. But how do you change all the references to that class and all the imports? James Gosling
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The way that NetBeans is architected, it's not so much a tool as a tool environment. James Gosling
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I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all. James Gosling
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Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when you do write code you usually get glass teletypes where high tech is keyword coloring. James Gosling
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The nerves were so badly compressed that I had no feeling on the palm of my hand. I mean, you could have pounded a nail through my hand and I wouldn't have been able to feel it. James Gosling
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Anytime someone builds a little application that runs on a cell phone, there's something that goes on the server. James Gosling
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The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept. James Gosling
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Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It is often extremely powerful to look not at individual pieces of code but at a system as a whole. James Gosling
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I enjoy evangelizing Java. In my heart of hearts, I'm an engineer, and what makes me happy is building something that works and having someone use it. That's cool. James Gosling
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