Re:James Gosling, the ‘Father of Java,’ joins Amazon Web Ser...
by kazinator on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:48PM
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> Now, I'm sure Gosling is a much smarter man than me
Java doesn't represent anywhere near the full depth of what Gosling actually knows about programming languages. You remark about "static typing without generics or macros to make reusable collection". Yet, Gosling made a structural macro system for the C language in 1989. The ideas in that could easily have been further developed in Java.
From Mock Lisp to Java: the really unfortunate thing about Gosling is the cynicism in his designs.
Java doesn't represent anywhere near the full depth of what Gosling actually knows about programming languages. You remark about "static typing without generics or macros to make reusable collection". Yet, Gosling made a structural macro system for the C language in 1989. The ideas in that could easily have been further developed in Java.
From Mock Lisp to Java: the really unfortunate thing about Gosling is the cynicism in his designs.