On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Liam Knox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does not stop a Company who is involved in another field , i.e. Banking,
> Medicine, Energy etc, etc, with worthy ideas being voted to the table to
> influence a language that impacts all these areas.
>
> There is nothing wrong with this.  The internet did not Spring from
> Computer Science community it came from a guy working in Physics.
>

Actually, he is a computer scientist, he just happened to work at CERN at
the time.


>
> Again this sentiment is at best short sighted and at worst Dangerous.
>

What sentiment exactly? I'm having a hard time following your point.


>
> Thank 'Do no Wrong' Google and thank Josh 'I wrote a Collection API once'
> Bloch for the non adoption of Closures before you criticize James Gosling on
> caring about Java
>

I have no idea where you're going with this, and for what it's worth, I'm
not aware of Josh ever saying such a thing (that was mostly just me making
these claims).

If you're saying that closures should have come before a solid collection
library, I'll just limit myself to disagreeing strongly with you.

-- 
Cédric

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