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Java syntax has many similarities to C and C++.
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Some differences
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No malloc or free - it has automatic garbage collection.
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No pointers - designers felt pointer arithmetic not robust or safe.
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Can declare variables almost anywhere as needed.
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No struct, union, enum, typedef from C- it has classes and objects instead.
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Primitive types for integers and floats have machine independent semantics
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IEEE standard definitions - same answer on all machines.
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Some similarities
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All variables must be declared
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Syntax and comments
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Control structures: if, while, and for statements, expressions
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