[806] in java-interest
Re: java-interest-digest V1 #90
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Van Beveren)
Thu Jul 20 14:22:23 1995
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 09:50:13 -0700
From: dvb@eis.com (David Van Beveren)
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. :-)
>
True, however java has come to be a general term for all coffee, as in
"you need a cup of my java" (Steve Martin).
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