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HISTORY OF JAVA

                                                                HISTORY OF JAVA
James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991.[12] Java was originally designed for interactive television, but it was too advanced for the digital cable television industry at the time.[13] The language was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office; it went by the name Green later, and was later renamed Java, from Java coffee, said to be consumed in large quantities by the language's creators.[14] Gosling aimed to implement a virtual machine and a language that had a familiar C/C++ style of notation.[15]