to promote object-oriented programming so that lots of people
would use it. C++ didn't quite get there (I won't go intothe reasons why), but another has: with the widespread adoption of the Java programming language,
we can unequivocally say that ObjectsHaveSucceeded,a position I defended in a debate with rpg
at OOPSLA 2002.Thus in this sense, at least, OOPSLA has achieved its goal.
Now the excitement of practitioners is focused on Java (C# hasnot yet displaced it), and there are lots of conferences,
such as !JavaOne, that address their specific pragmatic needs andinterests, so they have abandoned OOPSLA to the theoreticians and the vendors of non-Java products. -GuySteele
There is some truth in this. So, the program committee should discourage papers on Java because the people who want them go somewhere else, and
because there are plenty of other places to publish them. -RalphJohnsonThe following e-mail was forwarded to me from someone who went to ECOOP last week. I don't know the original author.
I was the tall guy without voice that spoke to you a few days ago in
Oslo. [...] But, alas, walking around in Oslo the (very cold) daybefore left me impaired.
I hope am in better shape next time we meet; which believe will not be
on ECOOP. Almost all talks I attended went like this: "We would liketo do X. But this isn't possible in Java. So we have this project to
change Java....". The proverb goes: "If you have a hammer, allproblems looks like nails", and never have I seen this smore true than
at ECOOP; some of the constructed problemes were simply lame. When itbecame evident yesterday that I had to return to Troms today to
attent to local problems, I was not devestated."