Java Programming Language Book
As a brand new magazine editor at the end of 1984, I surveyed the IBM PC field and commented under my breath, “These are the Crazy Years.” The IBM PC world had begun exploding in 1983; PC Magazine hit 800 pages; new compa- nies were forming every minute and spending huge amounts of money launch- ing new products into an astonishingly hungry and immature market. The machines of the time were almost unimaginably underpowered. 5Mhz. 8 bits. 256K of RAM. Only rich people had hard drives. And yet everyone spoke of their miserable little IBM PCs as though they could do the work of mainframes- we just hadn’t yet figured out quite how.
History doesn’t repeat itself-but it echoes, it echoes. Here we sit, eleven years later, I’m still a magazine editor (though not nearly as new) and the Crazy Years are back again. This time, plug the Internet into the place the IBM PC occupied in 1984. Our PCs really are mainframes now; those 166 Mhz Pentiums that we take for granted can handle anything we throw at them. What we’re enraptured with today is the ability to connect to a server and bounce around the world like manic pinballs, grabbing a Web page here, a shareware file there, a picture of Cindy Crawford somewhere else. New Internet magazines are appearing weekly, enormous sums of money are being spent and earned on Internet technology companies, and Internet books have crowded almost everything else off of the computer book shelves at the superstores. The Internet will become the OS of the future. Applications will be fragmented and distributed around the world; a piece in Britain, a piece in Finland; a piece in Rio. Faithful agent software will wander around the globe, sniffing out what we want and paying for it with digital cash. Our Internet boxes will be our phones, our faxes, our stereos, our game platforms, and our personal bank machines.
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Java has swept the computer industry with its promise to deliver executable content to the vast sea of computers connected to the World Wide Web. Here’s a look at why you’ll want to start developing with this language as soon as you can. In just a few months, Java has moved from the R&D labs at Sun Microsystems to the center stage of the World Wide Web. Never before had a simple program- ming language garnered so much attention and captured the imaginations of so many software developers and computer users alike so quickly. Some cynics think that the best part about Java is its name, which is also the reason they think Java gets so much attention in the press. But most experts who follow Web develop- ment think that Java is the most significant thing that has been developed or announced for the Web.
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