On Jan 12, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Barkow, Eileen <ebar...@doitt.nyc.gov> wrote: > > I am quoting from a book or manual or self study course I read - Java was > developed to be a simplification of C. > I will try to find this quote if I can.
That was either a typo for C++ or the author didn’t know what he was talking about. From what I understand, Gosling’s motivation in developing Java was to make it safer than C++, not necessarily simpler. Bjarne Stroustrup himself said, “C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.” (http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html) Java’s original use case was “downloadable applications for set-top boxes” and a big concern was preventing such applications from crashing or compromising the system. -- Pew, Curtis G curtis....@austin.utexas.edu ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
