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Java As a Programming Tool:

Java is certainly a good programming language.
It is one of the better languages available to serious programmers.
Java derives much of its characters from C and C++. This is by intent.
The java designers knew that using the familiar syntax of C and echoing
the object oriented features of C++ would make their language better.

Where did the dramatic improvements of Java come from? The answer is
that they didn't come from changes to the underlying Java programming language,
they came from major changes in the Java libraries. Over time, Sun Microsystems changed everything from the names of many of the library functions (to make them
more consistent), to how graphics works (by changing the event handling model and rewriting parts from scratch), to adding important features like printing that were not part of Java 1.0.

The internet helped catapult java to the forefront of programming, and java, in turn, has a profound effect on the internet. The reason is simple: java expands the universe of objects that can move about freely in cyberspace.