Sun Day

Yesterday was a good day at Sun's TechDays developer conference. Some of the sessions were a little too R-rated for my taste, but still quite informative.

James Gosling

The keynote was non-other than the father of Java himself. He answered questions jolted down by the audience. I wrote some of the good ones down:

Q. When will asserts be available?
A. Asserts will be implemented in JDK 1.4.

Q. What do you think of C#?
A. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Q. What are the top three JSRs to watch?
A. I could not say, but my favorite is Typed Polymorphism (aka. Templates.)

Q. Which IDE do you use?
A. NetBeans and Emacs.

Q. What would you consider to be Java's most compelling feature?
A. Its strong memory integrity model. You just can't smash objects around.

Q. When was the last time you had sex?
A. This is the one and only question I have ever refused to answer, so let me respond in the form of a joke… A retired colonel is asked:

"When was the last time you had sex?"
"1947"
"That's quite a long time, isn't it?"
"What do you mean? It's only 2030"

2Day

Today is bound to be X-rated. Most of the sessions are code camps.