History of Java

History of Java
Java (originally called Oak, until it was discovered that another company used Oak as a trademark) was developed at Sun Microsystems in a forward-looking project to develop a new programming language. The primary design goal of Java was to provide code for programs that would run on many different hardware platforms. The second design goal was to produce robust programs-programs that would have as few bugs as possible. The third design goal was for the language to be easy to learn and use. Sine the world of computers and application development was already populated with programmers who knew C++, the syntactical model of C++ was chosen along with some characteristics of Smalltalk. The effectiveness of Java as a programming language can be illustrated by considering how Java reduces bugs.