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Java
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Java	adopted many ideas from Smalltalk
	contains extensive on-line documentation about each class and method
	has definition An object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems
	does not execute the next line of code in the program if an exception is thrown and Java looks for some code to handle the exception and executes that instead
	does not have features macros multiple inheritance operator overloading pointer arithmetic
	does not let programmers follow a invalid pointer refer to information beyond the end of an array
	does not support global functions global variables
	has much the same syntax as C
	has feature single inheritance
	has feature very easy-to-program networking capabilities
	has order of operator precedence
	is case sensitive distributed dynamic high-performance interpreted multithreaded object-oriented portable robust secure simple
	is architecture-neutral
	is easier to program than C++
	is less efficient than C and C++ because it contains safety because it contains safety checks that slow down execution and because Java is interpreted which is slower than direct execution of machine code
	is not the same as JavaScript
	is a subtopic of Java History and Related Languages
	is interpreted by the Java interpreter
	is run using a virtual machine
	is a kind of object-oriented programming language
	supports method name overloading
	supports multiple interface inheritance
	treats all sequences of whitespace characters - other than those in strings - as though there were just a single space
	uses Unicode
	was first designed for embedded electronic devices
	was originally called Oak
	will not allow violations of certain security constraints when programs are downloaded over the Internet

Kinds of Java :

• Java 1.0 (5 facts)
• Java 1.1 (5 facts)
• Java 2 (2 kinds, 13 facts) (Java 1.2)

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