James Gosling Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent.

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.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

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

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

'PhotoCard' has 20 times as much code as the sum of 'QuickDraw,' 'MacPaint,' and 'HyperCard.' It is more elaborate and complicated, with all the client and server stuff. It took a lot more of me to do this than other projects, requiring an almost Mother Teresa dedication to do it.

No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.