C provided a "middle-level" balance. It was powerful enough to talk directly to hardware but simple enough to be portable across different systems.
In 1991, and his "Green Team" at Sun Microsystems set out to build software for consumer electronics, like set-top boxes. Java Ve C
In the early '70s, programming was tied to specific hardware. If you wanted to move a program to a new machine, you often had to rewrite it. C provided a "middle-level" balance
Gosling created a new language called Oak (later renamed Java because of trademark issues). It borrowed C’s familiar syntax but removed the dangerous parts, like manual memory management. like manual memory management.