User:Technichal Siddharttha

THE CREATION OF JAVA  Java  is a general -purpose,  object oriented  programming language developed by SUN   Microsystems  of USA in 1991. It took 18 months to develop the first working version. This language was initially called "Oak" but was  renamed "JAVA"  in 1995. Basically Java was conceived by James Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth,  ED Frank, and  Mike Sheriden. Java was designed for the development  of software for  consumer electronic devices like TVs,  VCRs toasters and  such  other electronic machines.

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  Lindholm  were key contributors to the maturing of the  original prototype. This goal had a strong impact   on the   development   team to make the language  simple, portable and highly reliable. The java team founded that the existing language like c and c++

had limitations in terms of both reliability and portability. So they modelled  their new language java on C and C++ excluding a number of features of C and C++ that were  considered as sources of problems. Some important milestones in the development of java are as follows: