I will apologize in advance for the nitpick - but this is not an
appropriate analogy. There were no "existing apps" that would run on
the Mac - only DOS and Apple II software (and a handful of other
command line "UIs"). The mouse was an entirely new peripheral/
paradigm debuting with the Mac (com
Languages, Operating Systems, video cassette formats - not successful
on merits but on marketing, FUD, and corporate edicts. Microsoft
declared C++ to be the lingua franca of Windows, and so it was. Java
became 'accepted' after a critical mass of high-profile companies
adopted it for use (IBM, Or
Before we run off and abolish patents, let's consider what they really
are. I am not familiar with patent/copyright history in general, but
have studied the concept as defined in the US Constitution and by the
US' "founding fathers." The idea is quite reasonable and probably
even radical today.
A few points to address:
1. The iPad does need some improvements (as does the iPhone).
Wireless sync is one, the list can go on. If Apple does not address
these issues, others will (through add-on hardware, I imagine).
2. I join with the growing chorus (and have long believed) that there
needs t
While I agree that GMail is not by any means a "walled garden" or any
such nonsense, GMail was certainly NOT the first webmail service to
allow POP3 access. In fact, several webmail services allowed at least
POP3 access, and even IMAP access, before GMail even came into being.
As for corporate mo
First of all, best of luck to Josh in his new role at Palm. I have
always had a great deal of respect for Palm and their products -
despite all the ups and downs the company has withstood. Palm (and
every software company) needs great UI engineers and designers. My
"best wish" is that you make a
I think you folks are looking at this from the wrong perspective.
Last year SpringSource bought Covalent Technologies. Covalent supplies
technical support for the Apache Web Server and Apache Tomcat. That
places SpringSource in the enterprise infrastructure support and
maintenance service busines
I actually think Objective-C, the language, is pretty good and a
refreshing change from the "C++-ification" of Java. With all due
respect to Bruce, what did in (or continues to drag down) C++ is that
it is riddled with ambiguities and anachronisms. It took all the
pitfalls of using C and amplifi
I must mention that I also worked for Sun back in the 90's. Sun had
some remarkable products under development at Sun Labs. I had the
great fortune to work on one of them. While the product was publicly
announced (and demonstrated at the Demo conference), I won't go into
the details here. What
One question is why we want to run all these different languages on
the JVM. I think the most substantial reason is to have access to all
the marvelous libraries available in Java. We have those shipped with
the JRE, plus a veritable treasure trove of open source libraries and
frameworks to choo
I would add a few points to those already discussed:
1. I would not posit that Smalltalk "didn't take off" or in anyway
"failed." Not many programming languages introduced circa late 70's /
early 80's still garner as much attention or hold sway in shaping our
current language efforts. One can a
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