Comment by toyg
3 hours ago
Er. IIRC, Spolsky was involved in creating VBA for Excel. Which was arguably orders of magnitude more popular (and still more widely deployed and world-supporting) than Java.
3 hours ago
Er. IIRC, Spolsky was involved in creating VBA for Excel. Which was arguably orders of magnitude more popular (and still more widely deployed and world-supporting) than Java.
In the 90s, as a program manager. And it's a big difference between building an application and a platform (I've done both) when it comes to API design.