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). >
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