Friday, November 7, 2008
The Creation of Java
I got this out of a ebook. I want to share this knowledge cause its like knowing who developed the telephone or who created a book. So here it goes:
Java was conceived by James Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth, Ed Frank, and
Mike Sheridan at Sun Microsystems, Inc. in 1991. It took 18 months to develop the first
working version. This language was initially called “Oak” but was renamed “Java”
in 1995. Between the initial implementation of Oak in the fall of 1992 and the public
announcement of Java in the spring of 1995, many more people contributed to the design
and evolution of the language.
Somewhat surprisingly, the original impetus for Java was not the Internet! Instead,
the primary motivation was the need for a platform-independent (that is, architectureneutral)
language that could be used to create software to be embedded in various
consumer electronic devices, such as microwave ovens and remote controls.
many different types of CPUs are used as controllers. The trouble
with C and C++ (and most other languages) is that they are designed to be compiled
for a specific target. Although it is possible to compile a C++ program for just about
any type of CPU, to do so requires a full C++ compiler targeted for that CPU. The
problem is that compilers are expensive and time-consuming to create.
An easier—and more cost-efficient—solution was needed. In an attempt to find such a solution,
Gosling and others began work on a portable, platform-independent language that
could be used to produce code that would run on a variety of CPUs under differing
environments. This effort ultimately led to the creation of Java.
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