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Java
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An object-oriented language originally developed at Sun by James Gosling
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(and known by the name Oak ) with the intention of being the successor to
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C++ (the project was however originally sold to Sun as an embedded language
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for use in set-top boxes). After the great Internet explosion of 1993-1994,
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was hacked into a byte-interpreted language and became the focus of a
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relentless hype campaign by Sun, which touted it as the new language of
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choice for distributed applications. is indeed a stronger and cleaner
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design than C++ and has been embraced by many in the hacker community but it
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has been a considerable source of frustration to many others, for reasons
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ranging from uneven support on different Web browser platforms, performance
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issues, and some notorious deficiencies in some of the standard toolkits
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(AWT in particular). Microsoft 's determined attempts to corrupt the
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language (which it rightly sees as a threat to its OS monopoly) have not
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helped. As of 2003, these issues are still in the process of being resolved.
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Despite many attractive features and a good design, it is difficult to find
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people willing to praise who have tried to implement a complex, real-world
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system with it (but to be fair it is early days yet, and no other language
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has ever been forced to spend its childhood under the limelight the way
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has). On the other hand, has already been a big win in academic circles,
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where it has taken the place of Pascal as the preferred tool for teaching
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the basics of good programming to the next generation of hackers.
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