Coding Passion

I’ve been a java programmer since it came out in 1995. My father discovered that I was writing small scripts for some computer games and asked me whether I was interested in learning a real programming language.

Java was easy enough that i could write programs for my day to day usage, my masterpiece being an HTTP-Proxy to be able to surf the web (remember the 56kbs modems? :D).

Java had a troubled story, loosing both the browser and the desktop as a platform it was soon banned to mobile phones and to the serverside, but it also brought us some great changes for which we should be grateful. For once they introduced a good set of standard libraries which i so sorely miss in other languages, and with java it suddenly was easy to put together great applications. ReadWriteWeb has a really good look at the history of java which i think everyone should have read, i certainly felt touched while reading it.

Java was and still is a revolutionary technology, so revolutionary that Sun Microsystems recently changed its Stock Symbol from SUNW to JAVA.