我的同事们(三): James Gosling

James  Gosling 大名鼎鼎，“Java 创始人”。Google上输入“James  Gosling”，能找到2,470,000个网页。当然还不能和一些娱乐明星比，但他是我的偶像，为数不多的偶像之一。第一次近距离接触是在公司的大会上，会后自由进餐。我激动地让我当时的老板给我和James  Gosling照个合影，照片上我的嘴都乐得合不拢了。当时觉得在自己老板的面前这么“追星”，有些不好意思。但看到不少其他的同事也在排队合影，马上觉得释然，大家的心理都差不多嘛。

有过一次项目上的合作，更近距离地接触了James。当我问以后有问题给他发邮件，会不会打扰他，因为知道他很忙。他做个有趣的表情说：他很乐意解答问题，其实他更喜欢写代码，而现在时间不允许他有更多的时间在项目上。作为一个标志，James每年很大一部分时间需要出席各种场合，发表演讲，从内心里，这些并不是他很喜欢做的事情。James确实在写代码，他在java.net 上有几个项目，任何感兴趣的人都可以参加。我读了一些他写的代码，２００６年，他就已经在用JDK5 的新特性写代码了，而且喜欢用正则表达式。

近距离接触James后，感觉他象个慈祥的老爷爷。在中国有次吃饭后，一起观看杂技表演。演出后问James印象如何，他说：“It's really hurt （一定很疼）”。这个可爱的老人，关心的是台上十几岁杂技小演员的感受。

一次有个网站评选对IT有重要影响的人物，候选人中有James。公司里有好事者发群发邮件，号召大家去投票。James回了一封邮件，很含蓄地制止了投票行为。也许，他这个位置，这个年龄，已经不需要任何额外的光环。James在公司里的头衔是“Fellow”，这是公司里技术人员的最高荣誉，全公司三万多人，Fellow 也就十二个。

据说James也参与Java吉祥物Duke的设计，他喜好吉他和哈雷摩托，因此这两样东西也进入到Duke的图案中。身穿印有Duke的T恤衫是James的经典装束。

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1 楼 greatwqs 2010-04-19  

Hey Sun, you've become part of the history as you gave us all many significant triggers. It's not possible to imagine, where IT would stand today, if Sun would never have been existed, but I'm sure we were not as far as we are today. Standards like Java, J2EE that made rapid development an platform independed applications possible would not have been invented, maybe, maybe Unix would not have been as successful as it is, if Solaris would not exist, maybe the server market would be much less innovative, if SPARC architecture would not have been invented. I guess internet would never have become such an great thing for everybody without Sun.
Our all lifes changed and today nobody who's involved in any kind of information technology, no matters if he/she is an developer or IT architect or if he/she only sometimes writes an letter to grandma and surfs once a week through the internet, can avoid to get in touch with Sun technology.
Thank you for everything SUN.
One word to oracle: Be aware of your responsibility and protect this great part of the IT history. Make profit, earn money, defend your positon at the market and if possible expand, but do not sacrifive Sun within your fights.
PLS apologize for my worse English, as I'm from germany and not in training.