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The article recounts Java’s three‑decade journey—from its original name Oak and trademark‑driven rename, through its birth in Sun’s Green Project, to its core “write once, run anywhere” philosophy—highlighting its enduring dominance despite criticism and the legacy of its creator James Gosling.
Programming languages have evolved from early pioneers like FORTRAN, LISP, and ALGOL into dozens of modern families—most notably the C family that inherited ideas from ALGOL and FORTRAN—while languages such as Rust and Swift demonstrate contemporary blends of concepts from multiple ancestral lineages.
This article surveys the evolution of programming languages from the 1940s to the 2000s, highlighting key milestones, the emergence of language families, and how modern languages like Java and C# inherit features from earlier pioneers such as FORTRAN, Lisp, and Algol.
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