Programming languages: Java founder James Gosling reveals more on Java and Android
Summary
"That was everything from the early glimmers of cell phones that were happening then to – you look at elevators and locomotives and process-control systems in factories and all kinds of audio and video equipment. Discovering that industry outside the traditional computing world was now repeating earlier mistakes was one of the key reasons Gosling and his colleagues thought they could offer something useful in Java. After those road trips, Gosling and the company built a prototype control system in C and C++ code for home electronics goods, such as a TV and VCR. "I got really religious about that because Id spent an ungodly amount of time of my life hunting down mystery pointer bugs. It was a "social engineering" thing, but says people discovered that restriction made a difference when building large, complex pieces of software with lots of contributors across multiple organizations.