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#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
Lex Fridman Podcast
Java Is Called Oak Because of a Tree Outside the Window Story
Java is called oak because of a tree outside the window story that a lot of people know. How did it become this incredible, like. Powerful language? Well, so it was, it was a bunch of things. We sort of discovered that there were some things about standard practice and see programming That we're really getting in the way. So those are, I guess those are the principles that were inspiring. But how did from the days of Java is called Oak because of a Tree Outside The Window Story come to be? It's one of those stories where you just want to cry.
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