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Google has just hired James Gosling, the creator of the programming language Java, which is what Google’s Android operatingsystem, and subsequent apps are developed in. This move comes in the midst of Google’s battle against a lawsuit from Oracle, the owner of Java. The lawsuit is over the alleged wrongful using of the language in the Android stack.

Gosling developed the programming language while he was an employee at Sun Microsystems. He started on it in 1991, and the release came four years later in 1995. He left a few months after Sun was bought out by Oracle in January of 2010. He has been publicly critical of how Oracle has treated his Java programming language, and has even been quoted calling Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, “Larry, Prince of Darkness.”

According to Gosling he does not know exactly what his day to day responsibilities will be at Google, but he is excited about his new job. Having turned down many other “excellent” opportunities, Gosling is looking forward to the “leverage” that his position might provide him. This is most likely in reference to the lawsuit levied at Google by Oracle. He could instrumental in mounting Google’s defense in the case, being the creator of the entity that they are being sued over.

Other than helping in the lawsuit, it is expected that James Gosling will be taking up a position in the development of Android, using Java to its full potential to better Google’s mobile operating system. While the lawsuit does seem to be a large reason he took the job, it also seems that Gosling would be excited about the prospect of working on a project that was resulting in the one of the largest public uses of Java to date, as more people use Android, more people will develop with it as well.