Java in 20: How Programming Has Changed Forever
Sound ideas synthesized in Java , rearranging them into a practical format that activated a generation of encoders Remembering how the programming world was in 1995 is not an easy task. Object-oriented programming, for example, was an accepted but rarely practiced paradigm, and much of what happened as so-called object-oriented programs was little more than a renamed C code that used instead of printing and class in instead of struct. The programs we wrote in those days routinely knocked over the kernel because of pointer arithmetic errors or out of memory due to leaks. The source code can hardly be ported between different versions of Unix. Running the same binary on different processors and operating systems was crazy. VIDEO1.1 BESANT TECHNOLOGIES Java has changed all that. While the platform-dependent C code, manually assigned, will stay with us for the next 20 years, at least Java has proven that this was an option, not a requirement. For the first time,...