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  2. James Gosling - Wikipedia

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    James Gosling OC (born 19 May 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language. [3]Gosling was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the conception and development of the architecture for the Java programming language and for contributions to window systems.

  3. History of programming languages - Wikipedia

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    James Gosling, lead developer of Java and its precursor, Oak. Jean Ichbiah, chief designer of Ada, Ada 83. Jean-Yves Girard, co-inventor of the polymorphic lambda calculus (System F). Jeff Bezanson, main designer, and one of the core developers of Julia. Jeffrey Snover, inventor of PowerShell. Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang.

  4. Inheritance (object-oriented programming) - Wikipedia

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    In object-oriented programming, inheritance is the mechanism of basing an object or class upon another object (prototype-based inheritance) or class (class-based inheritance), retaining similar implementation. Also defined as deriving new classes (sub classes) from existing ones such as super class or base class and then forming them into a ...

  5. Oak (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Oak is a discontinued programming language created by James Gosling in 1989, initially for Sun Microsystems ' set-top box project. The language later evolved to become Java.

  6. Just-in-time compilation - Wikipedia

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    MSVC. v. t. e. In computing, just-in-time (JIT) compilation (also dynamic translation or run-time compilations) [1] is compilation (of computer code) during execution of a program (at run time) rather than before execution. [2] This may consist of source code translation but is more commonly bytecode translation to machine code, which is then ...

  7. History of computer science - Wikipedia

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    The world's first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff–Berry computer, was built on the Iowa State campus from 1939 through 1942 by John V. Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics, and Clifford Berry, an engineering graduate student. In 1941, Konrad Zuse developed the world's first functional program-controlled computer, the Z3.

  8. List of programmers - Wikipedia

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    Fabrice Bellard – created FFmpeg open codec library, QEMU virtualization tools. Tim Berners-Lee – invented World Wide Web. Daniel J. Bernstein – djbdns, qmail. Eric Bina – cocreated Mosaic web browser. Marc Blank – cocreated Zork. Joshua Bloch – core Java language designer, lead the Java collections framework project.

  9. Fallacies of distributed computing - Wikipedia

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    Around 1997, James Gosling, another Sun Fellow and the inventor of Java, added the eighth fallacy. [2] In an episode of "Software Engineering Radio" [3] Peter Deutsch added a ninth fallacy: "It's really an expansion of number 4. It extends beyond the boundaries of the physical network. ... The party you are communicating with is trustworthy."