| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - By abstracting the machine to the degree that Gosling (et. al) did, Java was a language at such a high quality of abstraction that it didn't even matter which OS was in place, how it computed, and, therefore, which hardware it ran on. (Recall Oak was intended to run on a broader spectrum of machines that UNIX could run on...) i.e. C was developed until it could express itself (compile a C compiler
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