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Is this an April Fool's joke? What were they programming in before Java? Brainfuck?

• gruseom 19y ago
  Not in the April Fool sense, but the article is pretty much a joke. It actually says that - and that Steele's claim to fame is that he co-wrote the Java spec. That's like saying Stevie Wonder's claim to fame is "I Just Called To Say I Love You".
  • apathy 19y ago
    That was a very subtle joke over the span of several years if so... I fell for it hook, line, and sinker with all of the easy mathematical notation. It preyed upon my desire for a language that would typeset and parallelize itself, so that I didn't have to run around with a hodgepodge of R, Python, and LaTeX to get my work done :-)
  • apathy 19y ago
    That's like saying Stevie Wonder's claim to fame is "I Just Called To Say I Love You". Forgot to mention yesterday -- this is an awesome analogy -- I hope you don't mind that I will be beating it to death in presentations from now on ;-)
    • gruseom 19y ago
      Ha, that's cool! I originally thought of Paul McCartney and Wings, but the Java analogy requires that the later, inferior thing be more successful than the earlier cool thing... besides which I am a strong Lennon/Harrison partisan and have deep issues against admitting that Paul was ever not a dweeb. Fortunately, Stevie came to the rescue.