[geeks] Gosling

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 11:34:56 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: [geeks] Gosling
>
> Did anyone ever post this interview:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24582.html
>  ?
> 
> If not, it is a pretty interesting interview with James Gosling.  Kinda old,
> but I only just found it.

Hmmm...  I don't think I'd read it before either.  It's a bit more
up-to-date than the last television show I saw him featured on....

> BTW, Pete, ever run into him at Sun?

I'm not Pete, but I ran into him at University!  ;-)

I attended UofCalgary at about the same time as his sister and one time
during Christmas holidays he paid us a visit at school and I spent a day
or so sitting beside him in the terminal room while he installed the
latest version of his Emacs implementation.  (I was a huge fan of Emacs
even then, given that we had the original lisp-based emacs on our
Multics machine, and enough character-oriented terminals to use it, and
I had a prof. who was enough of a lisp nut to approve an enormous
computing budget for me so that I could afford to use emacs on the
Multics machine.  I didn't know at the time that he was a fan of
Multics, just that he had managed to write a rather complete
re-implementation of that wonderful editor I loved so much and make it
work on Unix!  That was of course a few years before NeWS, and possibly
even before he went to Sun -- I think he may still have been in grad
school at the time.

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