Robert Simmons Jr.
Robert Simmons, Jr. started programming when floppy disks were really floppy and 64 KB of RAM was considered state of the art. From his early days of programming BASIC and Logo on an Apple IIe, he advanced through Pascal and C to arrive in the object-oriented realm of C++. When Java was first introduced, he knew that the infant language would become a serious player among corporations; Robert learned Java and began using it as his primary language for programming in 1997. He lives and works as a senior software architect in Germany.
The animal on the cover of Hardcore Java is a lion. The lion (Panthera leo) is the largest of the African carnivores. Males, distinguished by their tawny manes, can weigh up to 500 pounds; the smaller, maneless females can weigh up to 300 pounds. Both sexes are powerfully built. Their muscular bodies can take down such large prey as buffalo, giraffe, and young elephants, but they usually hunt medium-to large-sized herd animals,such as antelopes and gazelles.
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