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About Java Programming Language

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Paradigm(s) multi-paradigm: object-oriented, structured, imperative, generic, reflective Appeared in 1995 Designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems Developer Oracle Corporation Stable release Java Standard Edition 7 Update 5 (1.7.5) (June 12, 2012 ; 35 days ago ) Typing discipline Static, strong, safe, nominative, manifest Major implementations OpenJDK, many others Dialects Generic Java, Pizza Influenced by Ada 83, C++, C#, Eiffel, Generic Java, Mesa, Modula-3 , Oberon, Objective-C, UCSD Pascal, Smalltalk Influenced Ada 2005, BeanShell, C#, Clojure, D, ECMAScript, Groovy, J#, JavaScript, PHP , Python , Scala, Seed7, Vala OS Cross-platform (multi-platform) License GNU General Public License, Java Community Process Usual filename extensions .java, .class, .jar Website For Java Developers Java Programming at Wikibooks Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which ha

A Brief History of HTML+/3.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0

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HTML+/3.0 In 1993 and 1996, respectively, HTML + and HTML 3.0 were both submitted to the W3C. Both were proposals to extend the current HTML 2.0 standard. Though neither was given final approval as a standard, they marked the earliest appearances of some of the future features included as part of the HTML standards. Some of these features Setting the Stage 5 became part of the next standard, such as tables; others did not, such as the <fig> element, implemented to create figures (images with captions). During this time period (1993–1996), the “browser wars” heated up. Netscape’s Navigator had become the dominant browser; based on NCSA’s Mosaic, it would quickly replace its predecessor. Quick on Navigator’s heels, Microsoft released Internet Explorer. In the effort by these two companies to capture market share, each began to offer newer and better features aimed at the HTML author. Each added support for features not in HTML 2.0; some of these worked in both browsers, o

A Brief History of HTML 1.0 and HTML 2.0

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The Hypertext Markup Language ( HTML ) was the brainchild of Tim Berners-Lee, a particle physicist at the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) laboratories in Switzerland. At CERN in the late 1980s, Berners-Lee recognized that he needed to access a significant number of electronic documents on a regular basis; moreover, many of these documents referenced other documents. Berners-Lee was familiar with the Standardized General Markup Language (SGML), a method for coding the structure of electronic documents, which had been around since the early 1980s, but knew that it was too complex for what he wanted to do: code and link his documents. He wanted a system that would allow for the simple coding of such documents, a way to transfer those documents through their networks, and the capability to link documents. Berners-Lee developed HTML to code the documents and the HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) for moving those documents. His system was launched by CERN in 1991.