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James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and Computing History [video]

by arbhassan on 9/26/20, 12:29 PM with 63 comments

  • by JimTheMan on 9/27/20, 2:38 AM

    Lex is killing it with the interviews! Stay true to yourself lex and you will go far!

  • by kylewins on 9/26/20, 3:45 PM

    I felt like there was much more to say in the interview, need a part 2 asap

  • by corpMaverick on 9/26/20, 10:29 PM

    I hadn't seen an image of James Gosling with white hair. Felt the sudden weight of the years. Then when he mentioned he worked on the Pascal compiler, and I realized that he was just a student when Nicklaus Wirth was already a legendary computer scientist.

  • by ryanmarsh on 9/26/20, 3:40 PM

    11:30 - ~14:40 seems James has some form of synesthesia

  • by teddyh on 9/26/20, 2:31 PM

    Richard Stallman on James Gosling:

    “[…] a friend of mine told me that because of his work in early development of Gosling Emacs, he had permission from Gosling in a message he had been sent to distribute his version of that. Gosling originally had set up his Emacs and distributed it free and gotten many people to help develop it, under the expectation based on Gosling’s own words in his own manual that he was going to follow the same spirit that I started with the original Emacs. Then he stabbed everyone in the back by putting copyrights on it, making people promise not to redistribute it and then selling it to a software-house. My later dealings with him personally showed that he was every bit as cowardly and despicable as you would expect from that history.”

    — Richard Stallman, lecture at KTH (Sweden), 30 October 1986

  • by Koshkin on 9/26/20, 6:37 PM

    The 1980s are far, far from "the early days or computing."

  • by chrisseaton on 9/26/20, 2:38 PM

    Is the host going to a funeral after recording the podcast with no time to change?

  • by jgalt212 on 9/26/20, 1:45 PM

    clearly the talk show format of 10 minutes with a guest with a few commercials interspersed in is very far from ideal, but just as far from ideal is 1h51m with a guest.

    Has someone posted a shorted edited version of this yet?