If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala — James Gosling Copy Share Image
One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
In C there are no data structures: there are pointers and pointer arithmetic. So you have a pointer into a data structure. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
So in a strong sense with Java it was a learning process for us - there was some tech learning - but… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
You see people doing Java-based internal applications all over the place, regular desktop applications that are sort of front-ends to the things… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Renaming a class at one level is really easy; you just change the name. But how do you change all the references… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
The data center side of the world is kind of like a solved problem, but you see interesting things happening on the… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Java the language is almost irrelevant. It's the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I've seen compilers for ML, compilers for… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Some of these isolated applications that sit on one machine are a million lines of code. How do you deal with that?… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Anytime someone builds a little application that runs on a cell phone, there's something that goes on the server. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
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… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds of things… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
So in a strong sense with Java it was a learning process for us - there was some tech learning - but the most… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
The NetBeans team tended to be focused on academic purity. Getting them to be a little more blue-collar was a challenge. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
The notion of having a fleet of autonomous ocean-going vehicles wandering the world collecting data is something out of fiction. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Anytime someone builds a little application that runs on a cell phone, there's something that goes on the server. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
