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Gosling, who he quotes at the top of the article, worked on NeWS, a primary competitor to X. And, I imagine he knows plenty of people who literally worked on X,
by SwellJoe 10y ago
Gosling, who he quotes at the top of the article, worked on NeWS, a primary competitor to X. And, I imagine he knows plenty of people who literally worked on X, since he worked at multiple major UNIX vendors during that period.
- cpr 10y agoX is also Java in Gosling's case. ;-)
- DonHopkins 10y agoAnd X is also Emacs [1] and Andrew [2] in Gosling's case. ;-) For Tim Bray, X is short for XML. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs [2] https://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2009/November/nov5_goslingreflectsonjava.shtml https://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2009/November/nov5_goslingr...
- cpr 10y ago"X" could also be Java in Gosling's case. ;-)