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too complicated and developers often misused it. They found C++'s lack of garbage collection to also be a problem. Security, distributed programming and threading support was also required. Finally, they wanted a platform that could be easily ported to all types of devices.
According to the available accounts, Bill Joy had ideas of a new language combining the best of MESA and C. He proposed, in a paper called Further, to Sun that its engineers should produce an object orient environment based on C++. James Gosling's frutrusations with C++ began while working on Imagination, an [[SGML]] editor. Initially, James attempted to modify/extend C++, which he referred to as C++ ++ --, but soon abandoned that in favor of creating an entirely new language, called '''Oak''' named after the oak tree that stood just outside his office.
Like many stealth projects working on new technology, the team worked long hours and
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