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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 | 2:52 PM ET

Java creator named to Order of Canada

CBC News -- The man credited with inventing the Java programming
language commonly used on the World Wide Web has been appointed
to the Order of Canada.

James Gosling, a vice-president of Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.,
has been named an officer of the Order of Canada, the office of the Governor
General announced on Monday.

Java creator James Gosling at the Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, Calif.,
in 2005. Gosling is one of 29 Canadians named Officers of the Order of Canada and
will receive his insignia later in 2007.Java creator James Gosling at the Sun Microsystems
campus in Menlo Park, Calif., in 2005. Gosling is one of 29 Canadians named Officers of
the Order of Canada and will receive his insignia later in 2007.

Gosling was responsible for the original design of the Java programming language
and implemented the original compiler for the so-called Java virtual machine.

Source: http://tinyurl.com/2mmh9x

[bobpike]

Yey! Good on him!

And I'm a Microsoft programmer meself. ;-)