Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *yew-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *yéwos
Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas
Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.?
Proto-Austronesian *zawa
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawader.?
Old Javanese jawa
Old Javanese Jawa
Javanese Jawabor.
English Java
Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.
Meanings
A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *yew-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *yéwos
Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas
Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.?
Proto-Austronesian *zawa
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawader.?
Old Javanese jawa
Old Javanese Jawa
Javanese Jawabor.
English Java
Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.
Meanings
An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
The awesome power of RSS delivered to me this morning a link to a new blog post by Robert X Cringeley. The post, The second coming of Java got me thinking. 2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second coming? Over my cold, dead RAM-cached database”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022:
(proscribed) JavaScript (by confusion with Java).
In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java alert which says that field two should have a value and then a java alert which says that field one should have a value and then a java... get the picture ? 1996 December 10, Cédric Bouckaert, “onBlur event handler with input fields”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):
I created an alert window using java script, but I found the fonts too small. Is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens. 1997 February 18, AG, “alert...is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):
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