James Gosling

(1955) Inventor Canada

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James Gosling is an inventor from Canada, best known for The Java language specification.

Quick Facts About James Gosling

Born: May 19, 1955
Nationality: Canada
Profession: Inventor
Notable works: The Java language specification

About James Gosling

James Arthur Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language.

Awards & Honors

IEEE John von Neumann Medal ACM Software System Award Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Tsutomu Kanai Award Officer of the Order of Canada ACM Fellow

Quotes by James Gosling · Page 2

In C there are no data structures: there are pointers and pointer arithmetic. So you have a pointer into a data structure.

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Arithmetic

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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…

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One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous.

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Giving

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From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is…

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Consistency

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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…

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Code

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