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		pmarin on Feb 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I absolutely love java it was designed to deal with massive enterprise apps with complicated dependency trees over multiple architectures Actually it was originally designed for embedded system with limited resources [1]. [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/javah...

mbreese on Feb 9, 2011 [–]

Well, at least the JVM was. Java the language was designed to lure C++ shops and not scare them too much. So in that respect, it was designed to be an enterprise class language.

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