Core Java - [History]

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History of Java

Java is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems of USA in 1991. Originally called OAK by James Gosling, one of the inventors of the language, Java was designed for the development of software for consumer electronic devices like TVs, VCRs, Toasters and such other electronics machines.
This goal had a strong impact on the development team to make the language simple, portable, and highly reliable. The Java team which included Patrick Naughton discovered that the existing languages like C and JAVA had limitations in terms of both reliability and portability. However, they modeled their new language Java on C and C++ but removed a number of features of C and C++ that were considered as sources of problems and thus made Java a really simple, reliable, portable, and powerful language. 

The most striking feature of the language is that it is a platform-neutral language. Java is the first programming language that is not tied to any particular hardware or operating system. Programs developed in Java can be executed anywhere on any system. We can call Java as a revolutionary technology because it has brought in a fundamental shift in how we develop and use programs. Nothing like this has happened to the software industry before.