O.C. , Ph.D (born May 19 , 1955 near Calgary , Alberta , Canada ) is a famous Software Developer , best known as the father of the Java Programming Language .
Since 1984 , Gosling has been with Sun Microsystems, and is generally known best as the founder of the Java programming language.
He is generally credited as the Inventor of the Java programming language in 1994 . He did the original design of Java and implemented its original compiler and Virtual Machine . For this achievement he was elected to the United States National Academy Of Engineering . He has also made major contributions to several other Software systems, such as NeWS and Gosling Emacs . He also cowrote the "bundle" program, a utility thoroughly detailed in Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike 's book '' The Unix Programming Environment ''.
In 2007, he was made an Officer of the Order Of Canada . Order of Canada announcement The Order is Canada's highest civilian honour. Officers are the second highest grade.
In October 2006 he shaved for the first time in decades (in preparation for surgery). According to him, neither his wife nor his children had ever seen him before without a beard. {Link without Title}
- Ken Arnold , James Gosling, David Holmes, ''The Java Programming Language, Fourth Edition'', Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN 0-321-34980-6
- James Gosling, Bill Joy , Guy L. Steele Jr. , Gilad Bracha, ''The Java Language Specification, Third Edition'', Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN 0-321-24678-0
- Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes, ''The Java Programming Language, Third Edition'', Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000, ISBN 0-201-70433-1
- James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy L. Steele Jr., Gilad Bracha, ''The Java Language Specification, Second Edition'', Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-31008-2
- Gregory Bollella (Editor), Benjamin Brosgol, James Gosling, Peter Dibble, Steve Furr, David Hardin, Mark Turnbull, ''The Real-Time Specification for Java'', Addison Wesley Longman, 2000, ISBN 0-201-70323-8
- Ken Arnold, James Gosling, ''The Java programming language Second Edition'', Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-31006-6
- Ken Arnold, James Gosling, ''The Java programming language'', Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63455-4
- James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy L. Steele Jr., ''The Java Language Specification'', Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63451-1
- James Gosling, Frank Yellin, The Java Team, ''The Java Application Programming Interface, Volume 2: Window Toolkit and Applets'', Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63459-7
- James Gosling, Frank Yellin, The Java Team, ''The Java Application Programming Interface, Volume 1: Core Packages'', Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63453-8
- James Gosling, Henry McGilton, '' The Java language Environment: A white paper '', Sun Microsystems , 1996
- James Gosling, David S.H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden, ''The NeWS Book : An Introduction to the Network/Extensible Window System (Sun Technical Reference Library)'', Springer, 1989, ISBN 0-387-96915-2
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