THE Java™ programming language is a general-purpose, concurrent, classbased,
object-oriented language. It is designed to be simple enough that many
programmers can achieve fluency in the language. The Java programming language
is related to C and C++ but is organized rather differently, with a number of aspects
of C and C++ omitted and a few ideas from other languages included. It is intended
to be a production language, not a research language, and so, as C. A. R. Hoare
suggested in his classic paper on language design, the design has avoided including
new and untested features.
