Where did Java come from?
In the late 1970’s Bill Joy thought about doing a language that would merge the best features of MESA and C. However other projects (like cofounding Sun) intervened. In the late 1980’s he got Sun’s engineers started on a complete revision of the UNIX operating system that involved merging SunOS4.x with AT&T’s SYSVR4. In 1989 Joy sold his Sun stock, invested heavily in Microsoft and moved out of mainstream Sun to Aspen, Colorado. By the early 90’s Bill was getting tired of huge programs. He decided that he wanted to be able to write a 10,000 line program that made a difference.
