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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.
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.