Was just going through Alan Kay’s quotes on Wikipedia. Found some interesting ones on Java.
Read on . . . I am sure, after reading these even you will say . . . So true!!!

* Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
o Source: ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 – Dec/Jan 2004-2005

* If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
o Source: ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 – Dec/Jan 2004-2005

* I fear —as far as I can tell— that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
o Source: ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 – Dec/Jan 2004-2005

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