Re: Help me!! Why java is so popular


<amalikarunanayake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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java has become an important language in very short time. What are
some of the things that have made it so popular?


One of the biggest reasons JAVA has taken off, is its ease of portability.
When an application is written in a language like C or C++, it must be
compiled separately for each platform that will run your application.



Java has a virtual machine that is able to take JAVA code information and
translate it to the specific machine running the application on the fly. It
makes it so you do not have to re-compile the application for every
platform.



There are some downsides to this; JAVA is generally slower than a language
like C++ because of the extra time needed by the Virtual Machine. With how
fast computers are today, most people do not care about the performance
penalty in their applications (the penalty is usually pretty small now).


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