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Re: java-interest-digest V1 #90
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael D. McCool)
Thu Jul 20 12:14:20 1995
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 10:50:23 -0400
From: "Michael D. McCool" <mmccool@cgl.uwaterloo.ca>
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, wlim@lehman.com
Cc: weilerj@std.teradyne.com
>> And why is the Island name used for this programming language
>> Richard Wahongan
> It's not... While I empathize with my friends across the ocean, the
> language was named after coffee. I think the little hot coffee cup
> sketch on the standard java web-pages just about clinches it. ;-)
. But the Java coffee was named after the Indonesian Island. Hence Java
. (the language) inherited the name from the Indonesian Island, viz.,
. name inheritance. :-)
. Willie
Actually, the plants and beans used to make Java were stolen by the Dutch
from the Arab town of "Mocha" and transplated to their south seas colonies.
Coffee is, after all, "the black wine of Islam" (according to the OED anyways).
So "Java" is inherited from "Mocha", and "Mocha" is yet another name for
"coffee" named after a place.
BTW I feel that all "coffee" names should be reserved for the Java developers
so they have a consistent metaphoric name-space. I also feel that if the
browser were called "Mocha" instead of "HotJava" there would be less
confusion between the two. Oh well, maybe if Java ever gets a
redesigned/compilable Tcl as a scripting language it should be called "Mocha".
Michael McCool.
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