James Gosling Quotes

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.

I am a programmer.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

C++ is a pile of crap.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

We just think it's important that everybody have some technical training and background. Even though not everybody is coding but even our deals team and our designers all have GitHub accounts and they go into the code base.

I was a programmer.

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

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

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.