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Java is a high-level, general-purpose, memory-safe, object-oriented programming language. It is intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere (WORA), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need to recompile. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of the underlying computer architecture. The syntax of Java is similar to C and C++, but has fewer low-level facilities than either of them. The Java runtime provides dynamic capabilities that are typically not available in traditional compiled languages. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1995
Designed by: James Gosling • Oracle Corporation
Developed by: James Gosling • Sun Microsystems • Oracle Corporation
Named after: Java coffee
Aliases: java programming language
File extensions: class, jad, jar, java, jmod

Wikidata: Q251

Influenced: ActionScript • Ada • Apache Groovy • Ateji PX • Ballerina • BeanShell • Ceylon • Chapel • Common Intermediate Language • C# • D • Dart • Deesel • Dragon • E • Frege • Gambas • Gosu • Gremlin • Hack • Haxe • JavaFX Script • JavaScript • Join Java • JS++ • Karel++ • Kotlin • Mirah • Monkey X • OptimJ • PHP • Pnuts • Processing • Python • Qore • Scala • Seed7 • Swift • Tea • TypeScript • Vala • Whiley • X++ • X10 • Xtend

Influenced by: Ada • C • C++ • C# • Eiffel • Mesa • Modula-3 • Oberon • Object Pascal • Objective-C • Simula • Smalltalk • UCSD Pascal

Programming paradigms: imperative programming • generic programming • object-oriented programming • class-based programming • component-based software engineering • structured programming • concurrent object-oriented programming • functional programming • reflective programming

Language types: multi-paradigm programming language • JVM language

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public class Java {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		System.out.println("Hello World");
	}
}

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