'A truck the size of Sun's Java runtime environment'

Published 05 February 05 01:37 PM | alexcampbell

Interesting article on ZDNet about Java creator James Gosling critising Microsoft's decision to support C and C++ in the .Net Common Language Runtime.

He says some really stupid things, like describing the decision as one of the "biggest and most offensive mistakes that they could have made."  This is clearly just hand-waving "look at me" behavior.

And obviously he isn't aware of the Whidbey Secure CRT.

My favorite part of the whole debate was a comment I saw on the Slashdot article:

A truck, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
by Faust7 (314817) on Friday February 04, @07:53PM (#11578864)
(http://www.drgw.net/~nnthayer)
the company 'has left open a security hole large enough to drive many, many large trucks through.'"

Like, say, a truck about the size of Sun's Java runtime environment.

Comments

# Anonymous said on February 5, 2005 12:43 AM:

James Gosling and sun is full of stupid people with only one motiviation, fool people in writing sloppy code, make applications with patterns only, do not care about performence, let garbage collector work very very hard and finally most importent, in the name of performance allow sun to sell more and more hardware (Java is Free ?)