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Well here is another Gosling quote:
Design principles.
+ Keep it Simple
+ Redundancy is bad
+ "it's a nice idea" is too weak a criteria: only put in what's
essential
+ Complex = hard to build, test. debug, tune, explain
+ Use What Works
+ its easier to add something later when you figure out the
answer
+ Than it is to plster over a mistake that creates a legacy
+ Unnecessary risk increases chance of failure
Taken from,
http://java.sun.com/people/jag/Presentations/TheStoryOfJava/img20.htm
Niels Peter
> This is probably ancient news to some of you, but James Gosling, in 1990
> http://java.sun.com/people/jag/StandardsPhases/index.html writes:
>
> "For a standard to be usefully formed, the technology needs to be
> understood:
> technological interest needs to be waning. But if political interest in
> a standard
> becomes too large, the various parties have too much at stake in their
> own vested
> interest to be flexible enough to accommodate the unified view that a
> standard
> requires....
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