Java creator named to Order of Canada

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Simon Phipps <webmink () gmail com>
Date: February 21, 2007 8:06:28 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Java creator named to Order of Canada

My colleague and friend James Gosling is, I believe, the first  
programmer to be named an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's  
highest honour. He'll be too shy to tell you all, so here's the news:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/21/tech-20070221.html


> The man credited with inventing the Java programming language  
> commonly used on the World Wide Web has been appointed to the Order  
> of Canada.
>
> James Gosling, a vice-president of Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa  
> Clara, Calif., has been named an officer of the Order of Canada,  
> the office of the Governor General announced on Monday.
>
> Gosling was responsible for the original design of the Java  
> programming language and implemented the original compiler for the  
> so-called Java virtual machine. Java programs are compiled or  
> converted into machine code by a program called a compiler when  
> they run.
Regards

Simon




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