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Re: java-interest-digest V1 #90
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Pinette)
Thu Jul 20 18:06:14 1995
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 13:34:55 PDT
From: pinette@mprgate.mpr.ca (Wayne Pinette)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
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> >> 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".
>
I must say, I have had a good time reading this thread :-).
I got a good kick how one individual even managed to throw in
the political issue of east timor into the conversation of the
beginning of a compiler's name. :-) (I wonder if C got this...probably
not :-) At any rate, I have a though, what happens if JAVA is actualy
an acronym..you know, like JAVA = Just Another Voracious Assembler :-)
or something like that...of course, JAVA isn't an Assembler at all, so
it wouldn't be appropriate, but still, I would not doubt if it's beginnings
had nothing to do with coffee, mocha, islands and inapropriate human slaughter.
Rather, it's humble beginnings started out as a silly Acronym of some sort.
Wayner
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