The biggest competitor to the Java virtual machine might be Microsoft's CLR that hosts languages such as C#. The CLR allows to write unsafe code as an entry...
Java is a safe programming language and prevents programmer from doing a lot of stupid mistakes, most of which based on memory management. But, there …
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