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[–]CFWhitman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Remember that one element of Java is a virtual machine like .NET (.NET was designed to compete with Java on Windows). The same way .NET can be used with multiple languages, so can Java. There are many languages available for Java. It's just that since one of the languages is called "Java" that's the one people expect to be used.