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Foil 4 The language Java

From Use of Java Language in Computational Science DoD Modernization Users Group Conference Monterey -- June 7 99. by Nancy McCracken, Geoffrey C. Fox
What is Java?
  • A simple, object oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, safe, architecture neutral, portable, high performance, multithreaded, dynamic language.
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.
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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