"Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle 396
Thrashing Rage writes "James Gosling has confirmed he is leaving Sun/Oracle: 'Yes, indeed, the rumors are true: I resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd). I apologize to everyone in St. Petersburg who came to TechDays on Thursday expecting to hear from me. I really hated not being there. As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good. The hardest part is no longer being with all the great people I've had the privilege to work with over the years. I don't know what I'm going to do next, other than take some time off before I start job hunting.'"
Not the best timing (Score:5, Funny)
Looking for a job? Get in line, buddy.
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe he can find work (Score:3, Funny)
as a rigger on Ellison's boat.
Am I the only one who lol'd at: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not the best timing (Score:5, Funny)
it's not too late (Score:5, Funny)
for him to brush up on his vb.net skills
and maybe he should get some ms access experience
I never could understand Java (Score:5, Funny)
BREAKING NEWS!! "JAVA IS DEAD", SAYS GOSLING!! (Score:1, Funny)
Cue fat lady!!
Re:bad (Score:5, Funny)
He will be missed. One question though. (Score:5, Funny)
Is he quitting? Will he leave all his stuff behind for garbage collectors to pick up? Or will he clean up after him by hand?
Re:Not the best timing (Score:5, Funny)
You know how sometimes tech jobs request things like "Java: 15 years experience" that leave you screaming at the HR people that the language wasn't even released until 1996? While you're busy crying about that, James Gosling is going to laugh at you and take that job.
Re:Maybe he can find work (Score:2, Funny)
I really misread your post and at first took it for a GNAA troll.
Re:He will be missed. One question though. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:He will be missed. One question though. (Score:5, Funny)
Is he quitting? Will he leave all his stuff behind for garbage collectors to pick up? Or will he clean up after him by hand?
Unfortunately, his garbage collector is non-deterministic.
Re:One of Many (Score:2, Funny)
(most notably Josh Bloch, who really had more to do with the Java APIs in their current form than any one person)
You mean Josh Bloch is to Java APIs what Alan Smithee [wikipedia.org] is to films?
(I'm sorry; I have nothing against Java, but your sentence was just too funny to pass up.)
Re:Not the best timing (Score:3, Funny)
You know how sometimes tech jobs request things like "Java: 15 years experience" that leave you screaming at the HR people that the language wasn't even released until 1996? While you're busy crying about that, James Gosling is going to laugh at you and take that job.
Yeah, but the problem with job requests like that are things like they said Java when they really meant JavaScript, and they also want you to be an expert in .Net, databases, Photoshop and Flash, all at the same time. And they pay $18/hr.
Re:BREAKING NEWS!! "JAVA IS DEAD", SAYS GOSLING!! (Score:3, Funny)
Java is the fat lady these days.
Re:One of Many (Score:5, Funny)
Continuing the Java tradition, you mean?
Re:bad (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah but he doesn't have a freezer full of Whoppers
Re:Microsoft (Score:3, Funny)
But then Anders Hejlsberg will have him encased in carbonite and mounted on his office wall as a trophy.
Re:I never could understand Java (Score:4, Funny)
Do you prefer Perl, $@%#&?
Re:He will be missed. One question though. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Here, I printed my resume on a business card (Score:5, Funny)
HR would take one look at that and say "This guy must be joking, he didn't invent coffee" and then toss the resume in the circular file.
Re:Job hunting (Score:3, Funny)
He crashed and burned?
Re:He will be missed. One question though. (Score:3, Funny)
They asked for his help but he refused to even give any pointers.
Re:One of Many (Score:4, Funny)
I recall this now that GP mentions it. What happened was that he turned up at the interview address, saw that the sign on the building said Microsoft, and left in a rage, screaming something about "time wasters". ;)
Re:Not the best timing (Score:3, Funny)
More likely he's going to put "invented Java" on his resume, and HR is going to screen him out because "invented" isn't a number greater than or equal to 15 years.
At least, that's how it works in the federal government...
c.