Random note. Java is far from the first portable cross-platform language to be marketed on that basis. See COBOL. Yes, and that's why COBOL was the last big en

Random note. Java is far from the first portable cross-platform language to be marketed on that basis. See COBOL. Yes, and that's why COBOL was the last big enterprise language. Java is the new COBOL. A lot of corporations hung onto COBOL through the 80s and early 90s, skipping the C/C++ wave, and going straight to Java.