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A. Packages and methods are fundamental tools of the language.
Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 07:34 AM EDT

Thanks, I appreciate your thoughts on this. To me, anyway, the specification and the libraries they specify are fundamental to the language - the whole reason for its existence. Java is not a general purpose language like C/C++. You don't use C/C++ because of the libraries it offers. In fact, if that is what you are looking, pre-written libraries to make your task easy, you would go for some 4GL.

Entire operating systems are written in C/C++, with no libraries at all. Of course some will be created in the process, but to begin with, libraries were not the reason C/C++ was chosen. In fact, there are no cross-platform libraries available for that new platform until you develop it.

Java is entirely different. There would be no reason to use it without its libraries, and as has been pointed out a thousand times now, it is impossible to use without at least some of those libraries. You can't separate the specification from the language, except for didactic reasons, because the specification is the language. You can get by without the libraries, however, if you are willing to create your own.

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