Gosling Quotes
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Goose, gander and gosling are three sounds but one thing. (Strauss, 1994 p. 104)What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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More Gosling Quotes
I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct; but stand, As if a man were author of himself, And knew no other kin.
— Coriolanus, scene iii
Java was, as gosling says in the first Java white paper, designed for average programmers. It's a perfectly legitimate goal to design a language for average programmers. (Or for that matter for small children, like Logo.) But it is also a legitimate, and very different, goal to design a language for good programmers.
— Paul Graham (2001) "Arc: An Unfinished Dialect of Lisp." paulgraham.com, November 2001
Java was, as gosling says in the first Java white paper, designed for average programmers. It's a perfectly legitimate goal to design a language for average programmers. (Or for that matter for small children, like Logo.) But it is also a legitimate, and very different, goal to design a language for good programmers.
— Paul Graham (2001) "Arc: An Unfinished Dialect of Lisp." paulgraham.com, November 2001
