Most Android developers will use Java to write their apps. Java is an object oriented programming language. But what precisely does that mean?

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What is Java? Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the 1990s (later purchased by Oracle).

SEE: Stephen Hawking was wrong about AI killing humans (says robot) Object-oriented programming was also an important concept for Java, according to Gosling.

Interested in Java functional programming? The first place you need to start, especially if you use the Streams API, is with this Java Function interface example.

The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.

Programming Based on a C and C++-based syntax, Java is object-oriented and class-based.

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Waste of time says, full-stack engineer Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion dollar disaster".