

It’s powerful, popular, and - crucially - designed in such a way that once a Java application is compiled, it can run on many different platforms. Let’s just say that as programming languages go, Java is a pretty nice one. I could tell you that it’s an object-oriented language largely based on C++, but if you’re a programmer you already know that, and if you aren’t, you wouldn’t care. So, for our purposes, Java is a programming language. Programming language, they toyed around with several names before settling on Java, allegedly because they, too, were coffee enthusiasts. (It also so happens that I single-handedly consume 3.5 percent of the world’s coffee hence another nickname for coffee, “Joe.”) In the early 1990s when a team of engineers at Sun Microsystems was developing a new

It so happens that a great deal of high-quality coffee is grown on the island of Java, hence the nickname. Come on over some evening and we’ll show you our slides over a nice cup of… java. Bromo, an active volcano, at sunrise on my birthday. I’ve been there a couple of times, most recently when I turned 40. Java, East of Krakatoa - Java is the name of the fifth-largest (and most populous) island in Indonesia.
