Why Java?
This book gives its examples in Java because Java is popular and important and will probably be the basis of future generations of computer languages. The popularity of a language is recursive. Developers invest their learning cycles in technology that they believe will last for at least a few years. The more popular a technology becomes, the more people want to learn it, and the more popular it becomes. This can lead to hype, or overexcitement about a technology's potential value. But Java is more than hype.
At a superficial level, Java is important because it is popular, but Java is also popular because it is a stride forward in computer languages. Java is a consolidation language, having absorbed the strengths and discarded the weaknesses ...
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