2011/6/14 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:00 PM, phil swenson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> So what triggered the mass adoption of Java?
>>
>
> My Twitter-size explanation of it is:  the combination of two things: 1)
> applets and 2) weariness from C++.
>
> Obviously, it's much more complicated than that and a lot of time factors
> contributed (e.g. the emergence of the web).
>

With 2 involving - in no small part - Garbage Collection

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