Actually, there was an Oak tree outside the window at Sun that the developer's 
used to enjoy looking at while at work.



On Friday 21 November 2003 03:49 pm, Pike wrote:
> > Well... actually the geek that thought up Java named it "Oak".
>
> now ... THAT is a cool name. Oh, I can see what that means
> immediately. The core language is just a stem. But all the
> twigs and branches are just as much part of the same tree. The
> tree would be nothing without them.
>
> >> This is the kind of
> >> complex thinking that brought us product names like javabeans, kaffe,
> >> hotjava, espresso, etc...
>
> branches, leaves, and nuts, and bark, and roots ... hm... MUCH better
>
> hm,
> 8<----pike
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