Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1821 JAVA

The other party had only one requirement, which was to combine UC and OAK, take advantage of UC's core instruction advantages, and transform it according to OAK's "embedded system hardware platform architecture" to make it a sophisticated transmission system that is particularly suitable for the Internet. It is used to break the rigid interface of static web pages and make web browsing pages more "flexible".

This involves two aspects. The first is that a language is needed that can be used to write programs that are suitable for transmission over the Internet, with very concise and small codes but quite good results.

Another requirement is the technical specification that allows the mini-program to be embedded in a web page and executed.

The former only requires a simple modification of UC, and the latter only requires a simple modification of OAK. Since both parties are developed based on C++, the integration of the two is very smooth. With everyone's joint efforts, a new program development language was quickly developed.

"The system has been released now," Hu Lidong said. "Last month, Clover Group officially held the Clover World press conference, launching the development language for web page embedded programs, and the Applet protocol that allows programs to be transmitted along with web pages on the Internet. At the same time, a new browser developed based on the software, Clover Webscan, was officially released."

"These three products are very powerful and mature, combining the outstanding advantages of UC and OAK. They have won the favor of IBM and Microsoft as soon as they were launched. Now Apple, DEC, Adobe, HP, Oracle, Netscape and other companies have come to negotiate. They are all ready to stop their own development projects and purchase our software licenses to develop corresponding application platforms for their own products."

"I came here today to ask about this." Zhou Zhi said, "How many companies have signed contracts now?"

"The letters of intent have all been signed, and the most active ones are Adobe and Netscape, which are already in the process of signing contracts."

"Do they have any comments or suggestions?"

"They haven't mentioned this yet," Hu Lidong said, and then he remembered something: "Oh, by the way, they asked why our system is called such a weird name - JAVA."

In fact, this suggestion came from a researcher in the team named James Guslin. Because they worked late at night to develop OAK, they developed a special liking for coffee.

The class library of this language has always been named after coffee beans, that is, Beans, which constitutes a kind of "environmental subculture".

Coincidentally, Clover's UC system also uses many class libraries, which are named "handles" by Zhou Zhi.

Such a coincidence makes both parties feel that it is a match made in heaven, and coffee is a source of blessing for everyone.

Because the system has changed so much, it is not suitable to continue naming it UC. Li Laosan's information industry trademark lawyer found that OAK has already been registered and cannot be used either. So everyone decided to name this powerful new program development tool after the island of Java, which produces high-quality coffee, and also designed the picture to look like a cup of hot coffee.

Only Zhou Zhi knew that his "handle" came from the Chinese word transliterated from the JAVA class library in his previous life, but it just fits together again in this life.

First-class companies will naturally make a lot of money by selling the agreements.

"Well... it's just a name, it's not important." Zhou Zhi waved his hand to indicate that there was no need to discuss this issue: "The key now is how our company's upgrade and transformation is going." "We're still working on it, it's a bit difficult." Hu Lidong was realistic: "Our system itself has not been in production for a long time, and everyone has just gotten used to it. Now we have changed to a browser page access mode, and some habits cannot be changed for a while."

"This is a design issue." Zhou Zhi said, "When you are developing, you must pay attention to the addition of iterations. We are not starting from scratch, but inheriting and carrying forward. We must fully preserve the tuning experience of previous versions."

"Back then, the change from DOS to Windows was huge, but why did people never complain about not getting used to it? Because the system became more convenient, not more complicated. We must pay attention to this."

“If we can’t even do a good job with the things we develop for our own use, how can we satisfy external customers?”

"That's perfect." Hu Lidong said with a smile, "Give me the notebook and I'll install JAVA for you. When you get to Daliangshan, you can also use the new tools to log in to our server nodes for research and development, and also be a tester for our system."

"Next, I want to work on a graduate student project." Zhou Zhi told Hu Lidong about his discussion with Gu: "Overall, this system still does not deviate from the scope of the graph database, but the data has become sound. I need to build a recognition system that automatically recognizes sound and converts it into ancient Chinese phonetic characters."

"The initials and finals of this system should be able to cover almost all dialects in my country. The symbol system alone should be two or three times the current Pinyin. In addition, there are some pronunciation methods such as diphthongs, which are not found in Pinyin. In addition, there are more than ten tones, which is far richer than the four tones of Mandarin."

"In terms of the combination of vowels and rhymes, the dialects of different regions are not very different. The biggest difference is the tone system. For example, the second tone of Shuzhong dialect is actually the third tone of Mandarin. The third tone of Shuzhong dialect is the fourth tone of Mandarin. The fourth tone of Shuzhong dialect is the third tone of Mandarin."

"With this transliteration system, combined with the unique vocabulary and phrases in the dialect, as well as special applications such as erhua, theoretically we can convert a piece of Mandarin into Shuzhong dialect through information processing."

"This is called feature collection. Our first step is to collect a wide range of dialect samples. The second step is to analyze and collect these features. The third step is to establish a more complete pinyin table than the current professional Chinese phonetic table, and establish a standard pronunciation for each mother code."

Hu Lidong was a science major, so he saw stars in his eyes and had no idea what Zhou Zhi was talking about.

"In short, it is to establish a complex phonetic system that can spell out all the dialects in our country."

"What is this thing for? Is it a way to promote Mandarin?"

“This is the root of studying the nation!”

As a liberal arts student, Zhou Zhi often feels powerless. For liberal arts topics, many people have the same first reaction - this thing is not worth eating or drinking. I don’t think my life will be affected much without it. For example, if I can’t recite a poem or sing a song, so what? I can still live well.

Compared to the immediate effect of science on changing people's lives, liberal arts often make people feel this way - are the people who do these things just too full?