The Java® Language Specification Java SE 24 Edition

Synopsis

THE Java® programming language is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-

based, object-oriented language. It is designed to be simple enough that many

programmers can achieve fluency in the language. The Java programming language

is related to C and C++ but is organized rather differently, with a number of aspects

of C and C++ omitted and a few ideas from other languages included. It is intended

to be a production language, not a research language, and so, as C. A. R. Hoare

suggested in his classic paper on language design, the design has avoided including

new and untested features.