Jacky,

James Gosling's tribulations with age discrimination are unfair and technically illegal.

They resonate with me because at age 78, I'm nowhere near ready to retire.

I've been lucky because I'm co-founder of a software company with 2 other guys whose track record, like mine, should get them hired instantly anywhere, but ...

Fortunately, we have no difficulty getting interesting consulting gigs --- and delivering on them on time and on budget. It's funny how much more we know than most 20-30 something developers.

I'm a fan of Java and appreciative of Gosling's contribution. I've been using it since beta and slowly migrated from C. I really wish that Java could be taught by people who understand object-oriented programming. I know that the article, below. is being used to teach college level programming in Australia.

https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/is-oop-relevant-today-3b3fdc2d1ab2