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The first version of the Java programming language is released.
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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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)