[OT] Gosling speaks

[Jerry James]

Sorry for the off-topic post, but I thought a few of you might like to
hear about this.  I just talked to a former colleague of mine, who
told me about a developer's conference my ex-employer held this week.
The keynote speaker was James Gosling.  My ex-colleague enjoyed the
talk, but the two of us spent almost the entire time talking about a
3-sentence exchange between Gosling and an audience member who posed a
question.

It seems that during the Q&A period, some audience member made a
remark about Gosling writing Emacs.  (That isn't really true; I
pointed my ex-colleague to the Wikipedia article that discusses this.)
 Gosling apparently retorted, "If any of you are still using Emacs,
please stop.  It was a good idea 20 years ago."  My ex-colleagues
enjoy playing the emacs vs. vi game as much as anyone, so someone
followed up by asking what he thought they should use.  "Netbeans" was
his response.

I've used both Eclipse and Netbeans.  Both feel sluggish.  I feel like
I'm constantly waiting for them to finish operations, and this is on a
pretty beefy machine.  Both have some really nice features that I
wouldn't mind having in XEmacs, but they're both missing features that
XEmacs has that I'm not ready to give up.

Anyway, that had absolutely nothing to do with the main thrust of his
talk (cool upcoming stuff in Java-land), so we now return you to your
regularly scheduled mailing list traffic.
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/