Introduction to JAVA
History of java
James Gosling is a famous Canadian software developer who has been with Sun Microsystems since 1984 and is considered as father of Java programming language. Gosling did the original design of Java and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine.
Sun Microsystems The Company was started in 1982.At that time he had four founders Scott McNealy,Vinod Khosla,Andy Bechtolsheim,Bill Joy.Vinod Khosla was Indian.He passed from IIT Delhi(B.Tech) and Stanford University (MBA).He left Sun Microsystems tow year later.
In 1990, Sun Micro Systems Inc. (Us) was conceived a project to develop software for consumer electronic devices that could be controlled by a remote. This project was called Stealth Project but later its name was changed to Green Project.
In January 1991. Project Manager James Gosling and his team members met to discuss about this project.
Gosling thought C and C++ would be used to develop the project. But the problem he faced with them is that they were system dependent language.(Designed to be compiled for a specific target and Could not be used on various processor, which the electronic devices might use.
James Gosling with his team started developing a new system independent language called Oak. Since OAK was registered by some other company, later it was changed to Java.
James Gosling and his team consuming a lot of coffee while developing this language. Good quality of coffee were supplied from a place called “Java Island”. Hence they fixed the name of language as Java.
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