In this video we take a look at the Sun JavaStation - A Network Computer released by Sun Microsystems in 1996 designed purely to run Java Applets. We will t... (more…)
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Most compiler engineers I know (including myself) believe it is a good thing to
expose as much information about the program under compilation as possible to
the compiler. The hope is that, in return, the compiler will perform more
precise analysis and mo... (more…)
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Programming languages (PLs) allow programming computing systems, typically computers. The history of PLs is long, dating from the 1800s in France to the 1900s in England and developing exponentially after the Second World War. Interestingly, while hundred... (more…)
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Mutability, nullability, serialization, primitives - Java seems to have gotten most things wrong. But could it have been successful otherwise? Brian Goetz an... (more…)
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