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Foil 5 The language Java
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Java Language in the Computer Science Curriculum ADMI Tutorial Duluth Minnesota --
June 3 99
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by
Geoffrey C. Fox
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What is Java?
A simple, object oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, safe, architecture neutral, portable, high performance, multithreaded, dynamic language.
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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.
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The Web is becoming the dominant software development arena; this will drive Java as the best supported, most widely taught language
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