About Me
- Name: Sushant Bhatia
- Location: Tempe, Az
I work at CUbiC, the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at ASU. We are developing applications and devices for individuals who are blind. I personally am in charge of developing the iCare BookReader. This device will allow individuals who are blind to have print material read to them. The interface is intuitive and accessible. The process is much faster than using a scanner and our BookReader is quite feature rich. On a personal note, I love coding especially in .Net and C#.
My blog is about coding in .Net and about my interests in general. I love to read, esp Discworld novels by Terry Prattchet. I will post items about work, school, cool stuff and ideas for projects I have. If your ever interested in any of them, let me know as I would love to work on some of them.
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Sunday, February 06, 2005
Java creator James Gosling and his "beef" with .Net
James Gosling, creator of Java and CTO of Sun's Developer Products says that Microsoft’s decision to support C and C++ in the common language runtime in .NET one of the "biggest and most offensive mistakes that they could have made". Apparenlty, this “has left open a security hole large enough to drive many, many large trucks through".
1. Gosling seems to forget that Java was originally "Written" in C/C++.
2. Gosling forgets about JNI which allows java to do the same thing he purpots .Net to do.
Now, there are so many application and operating systems and programs which are written with C/C++. Does this then mean that those also have security holes "large enough to drive many, many large trucks through". If Gosling knows about this obviously big security hole, then why doesn't he first fix Java before knocking .Net.
I think this quote is quite apt for Gosling. "Let he who is without guilt cast the first stone."
My Conclusion - Gosling should stop demeaning .Net and try to improve on their work and make Java better than .Net and let him start with a better IDE!