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Re:Ask HN: I have to analyze 100M lines of Java – where do I... by arethuza on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @10:19AM (#8257693)
I was working on something slightly similar (embedding a VM into a browser) during '94/'95 and was a bit miffed when I first heard of Java....

However, I did think Java was rather good and when I co-founded a start-up in mid '95 we positioned ourselves as a "Java company" - which was no bad thing in the long term as we were in a reasonable position when Netscape, Novell and IBM later decided they wanted to support it. Indeed our 2 round of VC investment was led by Novell - quite unusual for a UK company at the time...

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Re:Ask HN: I have to analyze 100M lines of Java – where do I... by sgt101 on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @03:31PM (#8259608)
I was doing Java in a very mainstream UK company in 1998; but we were leading edge and it became "standard" in 2000ish. By 2003 there were 100's of developers using it where I worked.
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