It was never the sexiest language, but for decades Java has been a mainstay of modern technology, and it's going to be with us for years to come.

On May 23, 1995, a seemingly modest programming language called Java was released by Sun Microsystems. At the time, it introduced the catchy promise of "write once, run anywhere" - a proposition ...

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