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Getting Perspective: Where Java Fits In

Here’s a brief history of modern computer programming:

✓ 1954–1957: FORTRAN is developed.

FORTRAN was the first modern computer programming language. For

scientific programming, FORTRAN is a real racehorse. Year after year,

FORTRAN is a leading language among computer programmers throughout

the world.

✓ 1959: COBOL is created.

The letter B in COBOL stands for Business, and business is just what

COBOL is all about. The language’s primary feature is the processing of

one record after another, one customer after another, or one employee

after another.

Within a few years after its initial development, COBOL became the most

widely used language for business data processing. Even today, COBOL

represents a large part of the computer programming industry.

✓ 1972: Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs develops the C programming

language.

The “look and feel” that you see in this book’s examples comes from

the C programming language. Code written in C uses curly braces, if

statements, for statements, and so on.

In terms of power, you can use C to solve the same problems that you

can solve by using FORTRAN, Java, or any other modern programming

language. (You can write a scientific calculator program in COBOL,

but doing that sort of thing would feel really strange.) The difference

between one programming language and another isn’t power. The

difference is ease and appropriateness of use. That’s where the Java

language excels.

✓ 1986: Bjarne Stroustrup (again at AT&T Bell Labs) develops C++.

Unlike its C language ancestor, the language C++ supports object oriented

programming. 

✓ May 23, 1995: Sun Microsystems releases its first official version of the

Java programming language.

Java improves upon the concepts in C++. Java’s “Write Once, Run

Anywhere” philosophy