[ajug-members] Rumour control was A Gosling sighting in Atlanta...

[Les Hazlewood]

I was kinda bummed he sort of side-stepped my question about supporting
or publicizing other languages - i.e. the Java language vs. the Java
Virtual Machine platform question.  Maybe I phrased it incorrectly, but
I wanted to know what Sun was doing (if anything) to _support_ and
champion other languages other than Java itself.  Their recent hiring of
the JRuby team lends some credence that they're willing to support other
things, but unless making a public announcement as such, .NET will
surely win the marketing war on this one.

I already knew that the JVM platform has been able to run hundreds of
languages for a long time now - for those interested, here is the site
that Mr. Gosling referred to last night: 
http://www.robert-tolksdorf.de/vmlanguages.html.

But what I want to know is what other languages could be considered
'first rate' by Sun on the JVM?  Right now its only Java, and I've heard
no public announcements otherwise.  .NET has VB, C, C++, C#, SmallTalk,
and a few others directly supported by Microsoft.  Why can't Sun step up
to the plate on others too?  I'd like to see Ruby, Python, and most
importantly for me, SmallTalk (I'm amazed at that language, and sad that
its not as ubiquitous as Java is today, but that's a _whole_ 'nuther
discussion ;) ).

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:42:38 -0400, "Steve Finch" <Sfinch at manh.com>
said:
> I believe he said they were working towards GPL 3.
> 
> http://gplv3.fsf.org/
> 
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> Subject: [ajug-members] Rumour control was A Gosling sighting in
> Atlanta...
> 
> Was it just me or did "Father" James Gosling just tell us last night 
> that Sun was favoring a GPL-like license over BSD-like one? Nice meeting
> 
> by the way, this was my first since moving to the area this month.
> Thanks,
> Vincent Stoessel
> 
> 
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