[814] in java-interest
RE: java-interest-digest V1 #90
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Muzaffer Kal)
Thu Jul 20 17:49:44 1995
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 20:29:59 UT
From: Muzaffer Kal <MuzoK@msn.com>
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM,
"Michael D. McCool"
<mmccool@cgl.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: weilerj@std.teradyne.com
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From: owner-java-interest@java.sun.com on behalf of Michael
D. McCool
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 1995 7:50 AM
To:
java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM; wlim@lehman.com
Cc:
weilerj@std.teradyne.com
Subject: Re: java-interest-digest V1 #90
>> 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).
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The term Coffee comes from the Turkish word Kahve which in turn
comes from the
Arabic word Keyif which means (loosely translated) pleasure.
So the term above
makes somewhat sense.
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