http://bit.ly/bmGeiq - - - James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, has resigned from Oracle, he announced in a blog entry on Friday
Gosling resigned on April 2 and has not yet taken a job elsewhere, he reported. "As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good," he wrote. - - - Well, that does not bode well for Java at all. Kind of a shame, I was just getting into the JVM again lately with languages like Scala and Clojure making it interesting. Parenthetically, I'd like to propose an idea to the FoxPro folks who have endured with patience my off-topic rants over the years in exchange for a lousy Levenshtein implementation in FoxPro many moons ago. :) I've been getting really deep into F#, which I even got working in Mono on Ubuntu 9.10. I am blown away by several features, and glad that it's pretty much freely available. I don't know if F# by itself will take off, but I can think of one potentially interesting use of it. Namely, I have been noodling on building a dual open source/commercial development platform that takes FoxPro's data-centric strengths and adds concepts from emerging paradigms -- particularly functional programming concepts -- to simplify building cross platform visualization and data mining applications/services and rich clients to consume them. I was thinking of implementing a binding to the (coincidentally named?) cross platform C++ FOX toolkit (www.fox-toolkit.org) for Mono/.NET, that could be used as the UI basis of web-savvy desktop applications. F# has tools for lexer/parser generating, so I was even thinking of what a new version of FoxPro as a language could look like, which is the more intriguing of the main ideas rolling around my skull. Anybody who is interested in exploring these ideas with me "seriously" could contact me at my "real" email, [email protected], to discuss. I promise no politics in purely technical discussions. ;) - Publius -- "It ought never to be forgotten, that a firm union of this country, under an efficient government, will probably be an increasing object of jealousy to more than one nation of Europe; and that enterprises to subvert it will sometimes originate in the intrigues of foreign powers, and will seldom fail to be patronized and abetted by some of them. Its preservation, therefore ought in no case that can be avoided, to be committed to the guardianship of any but those whose situation will uniformly beget an immediate interest in the faithful and vigilant performance of the trust." [Federalist Papers #59] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
