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Foil 3 What and Why is Java in a Nutshell?

From Introduction to Java to be used in (Scientific) Computing Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
1 What is Java?
  • A simple, object oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, safe, architecture neutral, portable, high performance, multithreaded, dynamic language.
2 Java is interesting because
  • It is both a general purpose object-oriented language along the lines of C++
  • and it is particularly designed to interface with Web pages and to enable distributed applications over the internet.
  • It has/will have wonderful tools to support it with best general purpose libraries even seen
3 Java will dominate as Web will dominate and drive Java as best supported, most widely taught language
  • Particularly good as language for K-12 teaching
  • Even outside Web, e.g. in scientific computing, Java is as good as and in some (modest) respects better than all other languages
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