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Foil 4 Java is an important language in the world

From Introduction to Java Language and Applets CPS406/606 Fall Semester 1999 -- September 2 99. by Nancy J. McCracken, Geoffrey C. Fox


The Java Language has several good design features
  • secure, safe (wrt bugs), object-oriented, familiar (to C C++ and even Fortran programmers)
Java has a very good set of libraries covering everything from commerce, multimedia, images to math functions (under development at http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics)
Java has best available electronic and paper training and support resources, growing labor force trained in Java
Java is rapidly getting best integrated program development environments
Java naturally integrated with network and universal machine supports powerful "write once-run anywhere" model



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