But there are some differences
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No malloc or free - it has automatic garbage collection
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No pointers - designers felt pointer arithmetic not robust or safe
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Can declare variables almost anywhere as needed.
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No struct, union, enum, typedef from C - it has classes and objects instead.
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Java characters are based on 16--bit wide Unicode Worldwide Character Encoding rather than the usual 8--bit wide ASCII. This allows full support of all alphabets and hence all languages
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Primitive types for integers and floats have machine independent semantics
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Booleans in Java have value "true" or "false" (not 0, 1, . . .)
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