I find two things really irritating about James Gosling as quoted in this article (there are many more, but none relevant to the article):
1. His use of the phrase "genetic code." He's trying to sound more intelligent than the MBA stereotype by using that phrase instead of "DNA," but he misses the point entirely by still using that idiotic metaphor. The end result is he comes out sounding dumber than the stereotypical MBA.
2. No mention of how Sun "slimed" IBM's VisualAge Smalltalk or Bell Labs' Inferno, because of course Gosling is convinced he invented bytecode VMs and is god's gift to programmers.
...He's trying to sound more intelligent than the MBA stereotype...
...Gosling is convinced he invented bytecode VMs...
If you have to pretend to be a mind-reader in order to rationalize your irritation, maybe you should just take a few deep breaths and ask if there's some other way you could interpret his statements.
1. His use of the phrase "genetic code." He's trying to sound more intelligent than the MBA stereotype by using that phrase instead of "DNA," but he misses the point entirely by still using that idiotic metaphor. The end result is he comes out sounding dumber than the stereotypical MBA.
2. No mention of how Sun "slimed" IBM's VisualAge Smalltalk or Bell Labs' Inferno, because of course Gosling is convinced he invented bytecode VMs and is god's gift to programmers.