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venkyk | 11 years ago

developed in java and running for decades? how long has the language been around?

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jacquesm|11 years ago

19 years. But sun was pushing it quite aggressively at enterprises so it is not rare to see big java installations that are now 15+ years old.

And those are not the most fun to work on.

arethuza|11 years ago

I started using Java in early '95 (having begged a copy from someone at Sun) and I seemed to be one of the first people writing stuff outside of Sun.

jebblue|11 years ago

I started in August 1995 when I first heard about it, which I thought was when they released it but it may have had a variety of trickle releases.