Sun considering GPL for Java

vagrant · Post by **vagrant** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:40 pm

thetza wrote:
Snarkout wrote:
thetza wrote: Java and Gosling have done irreparable damage to the industry as a whole.
Care to elaborate?
i could write a 10 page essay, but I'll keep it to 2 strong points: its floating point implementation and the detrimental effect it has had on education and a generation of CS students.

That is absolutely laughable. I think we're going to need that mysterious "10 page essay" rather than this nonsense.

thetza · Post by **thetza** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:18 pm

vagrant wrote:
thetza wrote:
Snarkout wrote: Care to elaborate?
i could write a 10 page essay, but I'll keep it to 2 strong points: its floating point implementation and the detrimental effect it has had on education and a generation of CS students.
That is absolutely laughable. I think we're going to need that mysterious "10 page essay" rather than this nonsense.

here's 80:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf
though you probably won't understand most of it.