INTRODUCTION TO JAVA

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INTRODUCTION TO JAVA

Java is a general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems of USA in 1991. Originally called Oak by James Gosling, one of the inventors of the language, Java was designed for the development of software for consumer electronic devices like TVs, VCRs, toasters and such other electronic machines.

This goal had a string impact on the development team to make the language simple, portable and highly reliable. The Java team, which included Patrick Naughton, discovered that the existing languages like C and C++ had limitations in terms of both reliability and portability. However, they modeled their new language Java on C and C++ but removed a number of features of C and C++ that were considered as sources of problems and thus made Java a really simple, reliable, portable, and powerful language.

The most striking features of the language s that it is a platform-neural language. Java is the first programming language that is not tied to any particular hardware or operating system. Programs developed in Java can be executed anywhere on any system. We can call Java as a revolutionary technology because it has brought in a fundamental shift in how we develop and use programs.