Java Quotes

• If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

  Robert Sewell

  Garbage, Execution, Computer

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• A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Learning, Class, Programming

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• Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.

  James Gosling

  Gun, Knives, Clubs

  "Object Oriented Programming with C++ (Second Edition)". Book by David Parsons, November 8, 2000.

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• If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Views, Talking

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• After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Perfect, Design, Aim

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

  Bruce Tate

  Design, Would Be, Development

  Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland (2004). “Better, Faster, Lighter Java”, p.31, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Serious, Language, Flaws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. 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.

  Alan Kay

  Stanford University, Training, Littles

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Effort, May, Today

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Details, Belief

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• While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

  Bill Gates

  Ambition, Doe, Tools

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• I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Islands, Indonesia

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• C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Growing, Faster, Stills

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

  Guido van Rossum

  Independent, Python, Host

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• I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

  James Gosling

  Thinking, Would Be, Lasts

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• I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Microsoft, Want, Observers

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.

  Ben Oakland

  Coffee, Tea, Cups

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• I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Problem, Platforms

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• In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Focus, Example

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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. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

  Alan Kay

  Secret, World, Sun

  "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

  Alan Kay

  Believe, Should Have, Class

  Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java project wont be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. And the quality of your hackers probably matters more than the language you choose. Though, frankly, the fact that good hackers prefer Python to Java should tell you something about the relative merits of those languages.

  Philip Greenspun

  Smart, Python, Community

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• Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Coffee, Stage, Descending

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Glory Road”, Berkley

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• (In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Microsoft, Lines

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• Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.

  Steve Yegge

  Games, Pieces, Gaps

  "Code's Worst Enemy". steve-yegge.blogspot.ru. December 19, 2007.

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