” You see people doing Java-based internal applications all over the place, regular desktop applications that are sort of front-ends to the things in the back, or standalone things. “
” When you interview at Google, they don’t tell you what the job is. You get hired for a pool and the reason they do it that way is they don’t want outsiders learning their secrets in the interview process. “
” The nerves were so badly compressed that I had no feeling on the palm of my hand. I mean, you could have pounded a nail through my hand and I wouldn’t have been able to feel it. “
” Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when you do write code you usually get glass teletypes where high tech is keyword coloring. “
” Renaming a class at one level is really easy, you just change the name. But how do you change all the references to that class and all the imports? “
” One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that’s usually very heterogeneous. “
” Some of these isolated applications that sit on one machine are a million lines of code. How do you deal with that? Most people have no way to wrap their head around it. “
” Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It is often extremely powerful to look not at individual pieces of code but at a system as a whole. “
” When you have large systems, it becomes almost impossible to make even very simple changes. “
” If you look at our customers, our customers tend to be really high-end people who make big, sophisticated systems. “
” If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect. “
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