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java
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java, n.
- One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands. [1913 Webster]
- Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java. [1913 Webster]
- an object-oriented computer programming language, derived largely from
C++ , used widely for design and display of web pages on the world-wide web. It is an interpreted language, and has been suggested as a platform-independent code to allow execution of the same progam under multiple operating systems without recompiling. The language is still (1997) under active development, and is evolving. [GG]
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