Java stories

When you're as old as the hills, you build up a complex and contradictory history, much of which lives in the minds of people whose paths you've crossed, toes you've stepped on, lives you've changed.

Why no, I'm not talking about myself. I don't know where you would get that idea. I'm talking about Java.

Also talking about Java are some people who knew it when, and have fascinating stories to tell.

Over at Java Developer's Journal, eight-year Javasoft vet Calvin Austin recently hailed the open-sourcing of Java with his recollections on the long, long history of the effort behind this achievement, in an essay he calls 'The Unwritten Story Of Open Source Java'.

Yet more recently, inspired by Steve Jobs' glib dismissal of Java in the iPhone context (and what other meaningful context is there, really?), utility developer and one-man software company Paul Kim tapped out a screed titled 'The Sun also Sets' (ominous, huh?) on his blog, Noodlings, in which he recalls being borged by Sun and Steved by Duke, and laments what might have been.

Recollection may be bitter or sweet, but it's usually a mixture of the two.

Posted by Mike Swaine at 05:22 PM  Permalink