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| | CNN.com - Technology - Meet the man behind Java - June 23, 2000 |
 | | In this interview, Gosling talks about his current interest in developer tools, his recent work on the realtime JVM, the practicality of mobile objects, the importance of strict interfaces, the reasons package access is default, and the robotic light bulbs at a Doobie Brothers concert. |
 | | So the whole no-heap thing/immortal objects, if you describe that to an average Java programmer, they'd say, "Oh my God, this is really awful." But if you describe it to somebody who's been doing realtime programming, their reaction is sort of, "Gee, that's what I do today. |
 | | There's the Java VM and then there's sort of a specialized class of Java VMs which would be the realtime Java VMs. |
| archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/06/23/man.behind.java.idg (4569 words) |
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