To what does Java owe its longevity? We posed that question to Barry Burd, author of the best-selling book Android Application Development All-in-One for Dummies. Burd cited the backwards ...

Java is a popular programming language that every programmer should learn. ... The idea behind the language is WORA, which stands for Write Once, Run Anywhere.

Java’s stewards have responded by incorporating some functional programming idioms into the language. But they’ve been steadfast in that Java remains a strongly object-oriented language where ...

Java almost immediately became popular for mainstream programming due to its portability and large set of built-in libraries. The then-mantra for Java was “write once, run anywhere.” ...