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  2. James Gosling - Wikipedia

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    James Gosling OC (born 19 May 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language. [3]Gosling was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the conception and development of the architecture for the Java programming language and for contributions to window systems.

  3. Java (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Java was the third most popular programming language in 2022 according to GitHub. [20] Although still widely popular, there has been a gradual decline in use of Java in recent years with other languages using JVM gaining popularity. [21] Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems.

  4. Timeline of programming languages - Wikipedia

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    none (unique language) 1943–45. Plankalkül (year of conceptualization) Konrad Zuse. none (unique language) 1943–46. ENIAC coding system. John von Neumann, John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert and Herman Goldstine after Alan Turing. The first programmers of ENIAC were Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Meltzer, Fran Bilas, and ...

  5. History of programming languages - Wikipedia

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    Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language (see Perl and Raku). Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, and previously a contributor to the design of Java. Martin Richards developed the BCPL programming language, forerunner of the B and C languages. Nathaniel Rochester, inventor of first assembler (IBM 701).

  6. Java (software platform) - Wikipedia

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    The Java platform is a suite of programs that facilitate developing and running programs written in the Java programming language. A Java platform includes an execution engine (called a virtual machine), a compiler and a set of libraries; there may also be additional servers and alternative libraries that depend on the requirements.

  7. Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia

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    Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors.

  8. Bill Joy - Wikipedia

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    Bill Joy. William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while ...

  9. JavaScript - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 September 2024. High-level programming language Not to be confused with Java (programming language), Javanese script, or ECMAScript. JavaScript Screenshot of JavaScript source code Paradigm Multi-paradigm: event-driven, functional, imperative, procedural, object-oriented Designed by Brendan Eich of ...