“I went and tried to fix some of the bugs in Java itself, and after doing this ten times, I decided it was a waste of time,” says Hassan. Part of the problem was that Page was using the relatively new computer language Java for his ambitious project, and Java kept crashing. > Page’s program “had so many bugs in it, it wasn’t funny,” says Hassan. Hassan was also good friends with Brin, whom he’d met at an Ultimate Frisbee game during his first week at Stanford. Scott Hassan was a full-time research assistant at Stanford, working for the Digital Library Project program while doing part-time grad work. > Since Page wasn’t a world-class programmer, he asked a friend to help out. Some useful context about Page's programming abilities from Steven Levy's book, "In the Plex" (which, IMO, is a must-read, as much fun if not better than the Jobs biography):
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