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Re:Larry Page's Java question – 1996 by sdkaufman78 on Monday November 10, 2014 @08:39PM (#8587770)
> I have a web robot which is a Java app.

I am reminded of Linus's announcement of Linux:

I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, as they say.

Re:Larry Page's Java question – 1996 by hosh on Monday November 10, 2014 @08:59PM (#8587849)
It would be pretty cool to put stuff like this together in a kind of an online code museum.
Re:Larry Page's Java question – 1996 by josephcooney on Monday November 10, 2014 @09:17PM (#8587908)
A while ago I tried to track down the initial check-in comments for a number of open source projects, with mixed results.

http://jcooney.net/post/2011/06/22/First-Check-in-Comments-f...

The Go one is particularly interesting.

Re:Larry Page's Java question – 1996 by _RPM on Monday November 10, 2014 @09:48PM (#8588017)
What is particularly interesting about "hello, world"?
Re:Larry Page's Java question – 1996 by molmalo on Monday November 10, 2014 @10:46PM (#8588178)
Check the date, and the following commits.