Oracle v Google Judge Is A Programmer!

Found on I Programmer on Wednesday, 16 May 2012
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One month into the Oracle v Google trial, Judge William Alsup has revealed that he has, and still does, write code.

"I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident."

"Judge: rangeCheck! All it does is make sure the numbers you're inputting are within a range, and gives them some sort of exceptional treatment. That witness, when he said a high school student could do it--"

A judge who actually knows and understands the background of this source-code case? That sure will get interesting. For Oracle.