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by rbanffy 5913 days ago
I don't think he has a close BDFL-style involvement with the Java SDK or standard library. From what I can observe, Java is, and has been, committee-driven since about 2000.

And Gosling is too expensive to write code. His time is much better used in conferences, motivating developers.
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pavs 5913 days ago
I find it funny how you can be too expensive to code. I wonder when was the last time billionaires like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Sergey Brin coded for a large project just for the love of coding.
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jlmendez 5913 days ago
Has Steve Jobs ever coded?, I know Gates and Brin did at some point. A quick search revealed a quote from Wozniak: "Steve jobs never programmed in his life." http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2006/10/5672.ars
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pavs 5913 days ago
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for the info. According to Wikipedia, he worked at Atari creating circuit board for games.
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rbanffy 5913 days ago
Legend says he sub-hired Woz for a fraction of what he was being paid.

At that time, games were "programmed" with hardware too, so, it would no qualify as a programming job.

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blasdel 5913 days ago
He used to do all the coding demos at NeXT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A (his little database app starts at 23:10)
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