Java offers a credible alternative to this. Although it presented the programmer with the familiar C-style syntax, Java implemented such fundamental object-oriented features as dynamic method binding,...

Java offers a credible alternative to this. Although it presented the programmer with the familiar C-style syntax, Java implemented such fundamental object-oriented features as dynamic method binding, interface definitions, garbage collection, and object-oriented encapsulation. It addressed the efficiency problems of interpreted languages by precompiling the source code into a machine independent intermediate form. This not only made Java faster than interpreted languages while preserving their dynamic capabilities, but also made it possible to compile Java programs that would run on any platform that implemented an appropriate Java Virtual Machine.