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Foil 148 Java Features -- It's Portable

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Java language offers a uniform abstract (virtual) machine model which is identical for all platforms. SUN owns the Java Virtual Machine (see online report) -- it is universal while classes can be added by any user.
2 Unlike in C/C++ where various integers match the architecture of a physical machine at hand, Java byte, char short, int and long are always of the same size, equal to 8, 16, 16 (unicode), 32 and 64 bits, respectively.
3 No header files, preprocessors, #define etc.
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