On May 23, 1995, a seemingly modest programming language called Java was released by Sun Microsystems. At the time, it introduced the catchy promise of "write once, run anywhere" - a proposition ...

For a “dead” language, Java isn’t doing too badly. Java continues to top the Tiobe Programming Community Index, an almost boring feat at this point after holding this spot for roughly ten ...

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...