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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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