Mon, 01 May 2006
Java History
Sun Microsystems, Hello World(s)! From Code to Culture:
A 10 Year Celebration of Java Technology,
available from Pearson Education
This is a nicely produced hardback that sets out the
ten years of Java from idea stage to where it is today (on
a whole lot of cellphones for a start). It is not a technical
book but more of a PR celebration with lots of big photos
and nice graphics and a nice story of how it all happened,
complete with some false starts and redeployments and then on to
some heady success.
This being a book from Sun itself, you don't hear too
much about what people don't like about it -- which is mostly
that it carries its Virtual Machine wherever it goes, and
there are circumstances where that can be irksome. Nevertheless,
there has been an aspect of fun to this language which has
been part clever promotion and part that it is a lot
nicer than C++ to use ... even if it is suitable for
entirely different jobs.
If you are a big Java fan, you'll probably find this
book to be worth the hun.
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