Summary
Java is a different language today than it was in 1995.
This has a good side—a proven market for Java programmers exists at present and the skills are in huge demand. Five years ago you couldn't find "Java" in a classified ad outside of Silicon Valley, and even there the market consisted of Sun, Netscape, and only a few others.
This also has a bad side—Java is at least five times as large today as it was upon its first release, so there's much more to learn.
For this reason, today was the last day for Java to be described in the abstract. The next 20 days will be spent at the command line, creating Java applications and applets, running them with the interpreter or a Web browser, and exploring the fundamental concepts of the language. ...
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