Java will also have a huge impact on programming for the systems we use today: PC and Macintosh computers, UNIX workstations and servers … Java has a long and wonderful future ahead of it, and will greatly impact our industry.
Predictor: Joy, Bill
Prediction, in context:In a November 1995 a speech at Sun Microsystems UltraComputing Event, Bill Joy, co-founder and vice president of Sun, says: ”About five years ago, I told Scott McNealy that I was going to start working on things with longer-term impact … At an off-site in Colorado during January of 1991, we kicked off the project that ultimately led to the Java language. Today, Java is the hottest software technology in the hottest segment of our industry, the Internet, and is the basis for Sun’s leadership in computing … Java is completely hardware independent. That means as you do more and more of your computing ‘in the Net,’ the instruction set you do it on will matter less … Java will also have a huge impact on programming for the systems we use today: PC and Macintosh computers, UNIX workstations and servers. It’s the programming language I have been looking for for nearly 20 years, designed for constructing reliable software and supporting good numeric, system and symbolic programming in a single language. I don’t have the time to tell you all the good things about it, except to say that it is the most exciting thing I’ve seen since I first saw C and UNIX at Berkeley 20 years ago this fall … Java has a long and wonderful future ahead of it, and will greatly impact our industry.”
Biography:Bill Joy served as chief of technical strategy at Sun Microsystems, a position he held in the 1990s, from the founding of days of the company in 1982. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: November 7, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: The UltraComputing Event
Title, headline, chapter name: The Ultra Generation: To The Next Millennium
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.sun.com/951107/feature1/
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