Risanuri Hidayat

Cerita ini mirip (sama) dengan cerita dosen ku dulu sewaktu kuliah di HiA. Tentang Sejarah Penamaan Bahasa Pemrograman Java. Bagi orang Eropa/Amerika, (pulau) Java (mereka membacanya sebagai Jawa) memang terkenal kopi-nya.

Maaf tak sempat terjemahkan.

History of Java

In 1991, a group of Sun Microsystems engineers led by James Gosling decided to develop a language for consumer devices (cable boxes, etc.). They wanted the language to be small and use efficient code since these devices do not have powerful CPUs. They also wanted the language to be hardware independent since different manufacturers would use different CPUs. The project was code-named Green.

These conditions led them to decide to compile the code to an intermediate machine-like code for an imaginary CPU called a virtual machine. (Actually, there is a real CPU that implements this virtual CPU now.) This intermediate code (called bytecode) is completely hardware independent. Programs are run by an interpreter that converts the bytecode to the appropriate native machine code. Thus, once the interpreter has been ported to a computer, it can run any bytecoded program.

Sun uses UNIX for their computers, so the developers based their new language on C++. They picked C++ and not C because they wanted the language to be object-oriented. The original name of the language was Oak. However, they soon discovered that there was already a programming language called Oak, so they changed the name to Java.

sumber: http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~guydosh/cs350/JavaPrimer.pdf

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Timothy Lindholm’s complete remarks.

“I believe the name was first suggested by Chris Warth,” said Arthur van Hoff, a senior engineer on the project and now CTO of Marimba Inc. “We had been in the meeting for hours and, while he was drinking a cup of Peet’s Java, he picked ‘Java’ as an example of yet another name that would never work. The initial reaction was mixed. I believe the final candidates were Silk, DNA, and Java, however. I suggested Lingua Java, but that didn’t make it…. We could not trademark the other names, so Java ended up being the name of choice. In the end, our marketing person, Kim Polese, finally decided to go ahead with it.”

Sumber: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-1996/jw-10-javaname.html?page=2

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Once they were deciding on what to call it. They were at a coffee shop drinking coffee, and somehow they thought of naming it java, which is another word for coffee. As coffee from JAVA island, Indonesia is so famous that sometimes coffee is itself called Java in US slang, the name was a good option for a cool and attractive name.

Sumber: http://completejavatutorial.com/why-java-is-called-java/

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