Chapter 1. Introduction
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
—Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programming
The Java™ programming language is arguably the most popular programming language in computing history—never before has a language so quickly achieved widespread use among computing professionals, students, and hobbyists worldwide. The Java programming language owes its success in part to its clean syntax, object-oriented nature, and platform independence, but also to its unique position as the first general programming language expressly designed to work over networks, in particular the Internet. As a result, many programmers are now being exposed to network programming for the first time. Indeed, ...
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