Day: September 15, 2022

Saturday, February 5, 2005 Australia —James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, said last week that he believes Microsoft is wrong in its decision to support C and C++ programming languages in the common language runtime in Microsoft .NET. According to him, this decision may lead to severe security flaws in .NET. Gosling is currently in Australia, giving talks and visiting...

Thursday, February 17, 2005China is now the world's largest consumer of resources, passing the United States. China's consumption exceeds the U.S.'s in grain and meat, coal, and steel, with the U.S. only still using more oil a year. China uses more wheat and rice than the U.S. every year, with the U.S. only taking more corn. In total, China consumed 382 million tons of grain in 2004 while the...