Joe Spolsky also never created anything as popular and widely deployed as Java. It's easy to bloviate about pure software when it doesn't need to literally run the whole world as you know it.

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toyg 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	izacus an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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.