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Tim Berners-Lee on Java

Tim Berners-Lee on Java
By Java News Desk
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January 1, 2004 12:00 AM EST
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Here is what he said:

Java is sweeping across the world so that if you go to your boss and say, "I'll think I'll write it in Java," then your boss will be very impressed and she won't tell you, "Don't be silly; we don't program like that here."

Tim Berners-Lee, keynote at JavaOne, 1996

 

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Vic 01/06/04 11:21:08 AM EST

Certainly prescient and correct. And despite all the hand-wringing about Microsoft trying to kill / co-opt another technologies like they did with word processors, networking and web browsers - I''m referring to .NET / C#, of course - Linux and Java together could very well if not kill Microsoft off (mercifully for us all), at least establish a competitive equilibrium that has staying power.
R.J. 01/06/04 09:03:46 AM EST

awwwww... that''s sad...
softwareJoe 01/01/04 09:59:03 AM EST

In Weaving the Web in 1999, Berners-Lee recorded how excited he was about Java:

"Java opened up a wide world of potential Web applications that would be simple and inexpensive. Netscape immediately licensed Java, and incorporated it into its next version of Navigator. I was very excited because Java is an object-oriented language, a more powerful programming technique than I had used to write ''World Wide Web'' but had abandoned due to lack of standardization."