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April 1, 1998

CS102-02 Lecture 1-2

High-Octane Programming

Java: A simple, object-oriented, network-savvy, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture neutral, portable, high-performance, multithreaded, dynamic language.

• Java runs more slowly for two reasons
  • Dynamic means waiting 'til a program runs to do some housekeeping
  • Interpreted means translating each line every time
    • Just-in-time compilation

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