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The Java Language Specification (Java Series)

The Java Language Specification (Java Series)

The Java Language Specification (Java Series)
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The Java Language Specification (Java Series) Paperback - 2000 - 2nd Edition

by James Gosling

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  • Title The Java Language Specification (Java Series)
  • Author James Gosling
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Prentice Hall
  • Publication date June 5, 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Z1-B-022-02185
  • ISBN 9780201310085 / 0201310082
  • Weight 1.79 lbs (0.81 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 7.6 x 1.01 in (23.37 x 19.30 x 2.57 cm)
  • Category Computers - Languages / Programming
  • Library of Congress subjects Java (Computer program language)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 005.133

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Written by the inventors of the technology, The Java Language Specification, Second Edition is the definitive technical reference for the Java programming language. If you want to know the precise meaning of the languages constructs, this is the source for you. The book provides complete, accurate, and detailed coverage of the syntax and semantics of the Java programming language. It describes all aspects of the language, including the semantics of all types, statements, and expressions, as well as threads and binary compatibility. 0201310082B04062001

About the author

Bill Joy is a cofounder of Sun Microsystems, where he led the company's technical strategy until September 2003, working on both hardware and software architecture. He is well known as the creator of the Berkeley version of the UNIX(R) operating system, for which he received a lifetime achievement award from the USENIX Association in 1993. He received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1986. Joy has had a central role in shaping the Java programming language. He joined KPCB as Partner in January 2005.

Guy L. Steele Jr. is a Sun Fellow at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he is responsible for research in language design and implementation strategies, parallel algorithms, and computer arithmetic. He is well known as the cocreator of the Scheme programming language and for his reference books for the C programming language (with Samuel Harbison) and for the Common Lisp programming language. Steele received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1988 and was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2002. He also received the 1996 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award and the 2005 Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award.

Gilad Bracha is Computational Theologist at Sun Microsystems, and a researcher in the area of object-oriented programming. Prior to joining Sun, he worked on Strongtalk, (TM) the Animorphic Smalltalk System. He holds a B.S. in mathematics and computer science from Ben Gurion University in Israel and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah.

James Gosling is a Fellow and Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Developer Products group, the creator of the Java programming language, and one of the computer industry's most noted programmers. He is the 1996 recipient of Software Development's "Programming Excellence Award." He previously developed NeWS, Sun's network-extensible window system, and was a principal in the Andrew project at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a Ph.D. in computer science.

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