http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102856,00.html Q: > What projects are you working on now for Sun?
A: > For me, (inventing) Java is 10 years ago, so I decided a couple of > years ago, it's time to get on with my life. So I went back to the > research lab at Sun, and lately I've been on a developer-tool > project. There aren't a lot of people building IDEs (integrated > development environments). And IDEs are generally targeted at > low-end developers -- people who are not experts at writing code. > And if you look for tools that are oriented toward (those) people, > you basically find nothing. The No. 1 tool (in that area) is Emacs, > and I was kind of the guy responsible for the original Emacs, 23 > years ago. One of the things I find frightening is it's still > around, and in many ways it hasn't really changed. Is that the best > you can do for a (low-end) developer? I don't think so.
