Talk:James Gosling

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Contents 1 Untitled 2 Birth year: 1955 or 1956? 3 "I use Emacs" quote anyone? 4 Trivia section deletion 5 Picture captions "James Gosling" and "James Gosling in Australia"

[edit] Untitled

Java is the grandchild of a goose?

No, Java is the son of a baby goose. Interesting concept

[edit] Birth year: 1955 or 1956?

Gosling's birth year keeps going back and forth between 1955 and 1956. A search on Google using:

"James Gosling" Alberta 1955 -Wikipedia

yields 517 hits, while

"James Gosling" Alberta 1956 -Wikipedia

yields 137 hits. Most, but not all, of the hits show 1955/1956 as the birth year (the rest have the 1955/1956 search term matching something other than a birth date.)

I sent an email to Gosling asking his opinion in the matter...hopefully he can clear this up. —Doug Bell ^{talk•contrib} 09:56, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Gosling states that 1955 is correct. —Doug Bell ^{talk•contrib} 22:05, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello Doug Bell. Thank you for your contributions.

I wrote his birth year 1955 in ja:James Gosling. --AutumnSnow 05:33, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "I use Emacs" quote anyone?

Does anyone have a document to cite to confirm that Gosling is an Emacs user? Thanks. Gronky 01:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia section deletion

I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I couldn't care less if Gosling grew a beard 50 feet long and used it to clean his house. Does stuff like this belong in a wikipedia page? A useful bit of trivia would have been something to do with his collaborations while working on a project. Alamandrax 09:18, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture captions "James Gosling" and "James Gosling in Australia"

It's unclear from the caption of the first picture whether Gosling is in Australia or not. Fortunately for the reader, the second picture's caption sets a better example. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.1.5 (talk) 10:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)