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Absolutely. Java was the first mainstream language with automatic memory management and garbage collection. You have to remember that before that people were bu
by karim 6y ago
Absolutely. Java was the first mainstream language with automatic memory management and garbage collection. You have to remember that before that people were building line of business applications in C or C++.
Java made it possible for average engineers to turn out relatively reliable applications, in a fraction of the time it'd have taken them with any other option (apart from Smalltalk but it was already niche by then).
- blendo 6y agoAlso, Java’s JDBC was hugely helpful in standardizing sql/rdbms database access for enterprise programmers.
- fishmaster 6y ago> Java was the first mainstream language with automatic memory management and garbage collection Wouldn't this be Lisp?
- kazinator 6y agoNo, no. Mainstream is actually a stream in Scotland, pronounced a lot like "mine stream", and also the name of the surrounding region and a village therein. The programmers living in Mainstream are True Scotsmen, and the first garbage collected language that these True Scotsman Mainstream programmers used was in fact Java.