There was also some desire to switch code monkey training courses (read: computer science degrees) away from Pascal.
2011/6/14 Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com>: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:00 PM, phil swenson <phil.swen...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> So what triggered the mass adoption of Java? > > My Twitter-size explanation of it is: the combination of two things: 1) > applets and 2) weariness from C++. > Obviously, it's much more complicated than that and a lot of time factors > contributed (e.g. the emergence of the web). > -- > Cédric > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
