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Does anyone know why the programming-language, JAVA, is called that?
Does the letters J, A, V and A stand for anything?
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Posted: 2006-02-19 13:22:46
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mail sun corporation and ask why.
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Posted: 2006-02-19 14:13:03
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The story goes that James Gosling, one of the developers of the Java language, was originally going to call it 'Oak' after staring at an Oak tree one day whilst trying to think of a name for the new language.
He later found out that 'Oak' had already been copywrited for another IT endeaver, and so he had to think up another name. He finally thought of the name whilst sitting in a coffee shop, hence 'Java'.
Another theory is that the letters spell out the names of the three key developers;
James gosling,
Arthur
Van hoff and
Andy bechtolsheim although the team insist that the first story is the true reason why it was eventually called Java.
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Posted: 2006-02-19 14:36:08
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On 2006-02-19 14:36:08, Cycovision wrote:
...........although the team insist that the first story is the true reason why it was eventually called Java.
In other words, the name Java is not an acronym of any sort, right?
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Posted: 2006-02-19 16:48:58
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Well, it's one of those Internet urban legends as to how it got it's name but according to the most reliable source, Java isn't an acronym for anything.
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Posted: 2006-02-19 16:56:10
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Courtesy of wikipedia.com:-
"Java meets the Internet
In June and July of 1994, after a three-day brainstorming session with John Gage, James Gosling, Joy, Naughton, Wayne Rosing, and Eric Schmidt, the team re-targeted the platform for the Web. They felt that with the advent of the Mosaic browser, the Internet was on its way to evolving into the same highly interactive medium that they had envisioned for cable TV. As a prototype, Naughton wrote a small web browser, WebRunner, later renamed HotJava.
That year, the language was renamed Java after a trademark search revealed that the name "Oak" was used by a manufacturer of video adaptor cards. The name Java was coined at a local coffee shop frequented by some of the members. It is not clear whether the name is an acronym or not; although some accounts claim that it stands for the names of James Gosling, Arthur Van Hoff, and Andy Bechtolsheim, or Just Another Vague Acronym, it is generally accepted that "Java" does not stand for anything. Lending credence to the idea that Java owes its name to the products sold at the coffee shop is the fact that the first 4 bytes (the so-called "Magic number") of any class file are, in hexadecimal, 0xCAFEBABE."
I specifically like the hexadecimal CAFEBABE story.
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Posted: 2006-02-27 14:27:02
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Java means coffee..a cup of coffee-as what the logo shows,right? Java is also the name of an island here in Indonesia-where I come from definetely..maybe the two have inspired those IT experts..(anyway,don't know for sure..just blind guessing)..
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Posted: 2006-02-27 15:25:00
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is it some type of coffee??
[ This Message was edited by: nokiamaniax on 2006-02-27 15:37 ]
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Posted: 2006-02-27 16:35:19
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Okey - I've been a lot wiser :-)
But, what's the story behind the little Duke-figure?
Is he the officiel JAVA-logo?
The SUN-logo?
Or???
Where does he fit in?
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Posted: 2006-02-27 19:41:35
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What if he sat in the loo when he was thinking of this would have been called bog
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Posted: 2006-03-01 15:58:22
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