I remember when Java was first announced. I was in college. I read "The Java Language: A White Paper" and I was immediately excited. The benefits touted were:

I remember when Java was first announced. I was in college. I read "The Java Language: A White Paper" and I was immediately excited. The benefits touted were: - simple - object-oriented - distributed - robust - secure - architecture-neutral - portable - interpreted - high performance - multithreaded - dynamic Quite a list! See the original paper here: https://tech-insider.org/java/research/acrobat/9503.pdf https://tech-insider.org/java/research/acrobat/9503.pdf I was one of the first students to do a project in Java (which I suggested myself). Yes, at that time, Java was cool technology.