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Java was created in 1991 by James Gosling and others at Sun Microsystems to be a portable, platform-independent language that could produce code to run on different CPUs and environments. It took 18 months to develop the first working version. Key people contributed to the design and evolution of Java over subsequent years. Java was intended to address issues with C and C++ by being easier and cheaper to compile code for different platforms.

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Java was created in 1991 by James Gosling and others at Sun Microsystems to be a portable, platform-independent language that could produce code to run on different CPUs and environments. It took 18 months to develop the first working version. Key people contributed to the design and evolution of Java over subsequent years. Java was intended to address issues with C and C++ by being easier and cheaper to compile code for different platforms.

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HISTORY OF JAVA

Java was conceived by James Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth, Ed Frank, and Mike
Sheridan at Sun Microsystems, Inc. in 1991. It took 18 months to develop the first Working
version. This language was initially Between the initial implementation of Oak in the fall of
1992 and the public Announcement of Java in the spring of 1995, many more people
contributed to the design and evolution of the language. Bill Joy, Arthur van Hoff, Jonathan
Payne, Frank Yellin, and Tim Lind Holm were key contributors to the maturing of the original
prototype. The trouble With C and C++ (and most other languages) is that they are designed
to be compiled for a specific target. Although it is possible to compile a C++ program for just
about Any type of CPU, to do so requires a full C++ compiler targeted for that CPU. The
Problem is that compilers are expensive and time-consuming to create. An easier—and
more cost efficient—solution was needed. In an attempt to find such a solution, Gosling and
others began work on a portable, platform-independent language that could be used to
produce code that would run on a variety of CPUs under differing Environments. This effort
ultimately led to the creation of Java. As mentioned earlier, Java derives much of its
character from C and C++. This is by intent. The Java designers knew that using the familiar
syntax of C and echoing the object- oriented features of C++ would make their language
appealing to the legions of experienced C/C++ programmers. In addition to the surface
similarities, Java shares some of the other attributes that helped make C and C++
successful. First, Java was designed, tested, and refined by real, working programmers.

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