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Re:James Gosling leaves Oracle by pavs on Saturday April 10, 2010 @09:49AM (#1255021)
I find it funny how you can be too expensive to code. I wonder when was the last time billionaires like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Sergey Brin coded for a large project just for the love of coding.
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Re:James Gosling leaves Oracle by jlmendez on Saturday April 10, 2010 @12:10PM (#1255226)
Has Steve Jobs ever coded?, I know Gates and Brin did at some point. A quick search revealed a quote from Wozniak: "Steve jobs never programmed in his life." http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2006/10/5672.ars
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Re:James Gosling leaves Oracle by pavs on Saturday April 10, 2010 @12:19PM (#1255241)
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for the info. According to Wikipedia, he worked at Atari creating circuit board for games.
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Re:James Gosling leaves Oracle by rbanffy on Saturday April 10, 2010 @12:48PM (#1255287)
Legend says he sub-hired Woz for a fraction of what he was being paid.

At that time, games were "programmed" with hardware too, so, it would no qualify as a programming job.

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Re:James Gosling leaves Oracle by blasdel on Sunday April 11, 2010 @03:18AM (#1256509)
He used to do all the coding demos at NeXT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A (his little database app starts at 23:10)
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