Gosling takes on Paul Graham-type bullshit
In an
article on James Gosling's
blog, he takes on the meme that Java was developed for mediocre programmers. I find this a particularly insulting meme popularized, or at least spread, by Paul Graham who is fond of spouting off on topics without any real knowledge of the subject (he does admit this, to his credit). I like Graham because of his brilliant book
On Lisp, but his
rants are ill-informed and contradictory, and his meme that Java was designed by committee to be a dumbed-down programming language shows a huge lack of undersanding, or the lack of effort in trying to understand.
Posted by ahyatt at August 6, 2003 05:31 PM