MetaFilter posts tagged with java and programming

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964

Artw — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:21:53 -0800

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

Dreamlines

Tlogmer — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:28:39 -0800

Dreamlines

Can you tell a book by its cover?

spazzm — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 05:02:47 -0800

I've never tried Java, but I can tell you right now it's not a good programming language.

ed — Fri, 31 May 2002 11:20:16 -0800

The Dark Side of Google? Google's first annual programming contest was a shrewd way to encourage Java and Python programmers. But this may be shrewder than the programmers who entered the contest realized. David Egnor may have nabbed a cool $10,000 as the contest winner, but for all the other entries, Google nabbed "worldwide, perpetual, fully paid-up, nonexclusive" rights.

grumblebee — Mon, 05 Nov 2001 20:52:06 -0800

Java is alive and kicking, and this guy knows what to do with it. Check out his sexy alife experiments (art? science?) and this goofy game. (Warning: his stuff crashed my browser a couple of times, but was worth it. Most applets are available for download.)

Atom Heart Mother — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:04:46 -0800

Dave Winer offers us 2 views of the scripting world in 2005. He says that 'in one view, we are all inside Microsoft's box, sharing a common set of libraries and object hierarchies. In the other, we use our favourite tools and runtimes, our communities stay independent.' Frighteningly, he may well be absolutely right. What a great diagram; it reminds me of drawing when I was a kid.