C vs. Java — What's the Difference?

C, or c, is the third letter in the English and ISO basic Latin alphabets. Its name in English is cee (pronounced ), plural cees.

Java (Indonesian: Jawa, Indonesian pronunciation: [ˈdʒawa]; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese: ᮏᮝ) is one of the islands of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia, bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea on the north. With a population of 147.7 million (Java only) or 151.8 million (including the inhabitants of its surrounding islands, principally Madura), Java constitutes 56.1 percent of the Indonesian population and is the world's most-populous major island.

The third letter of the alphabet.

A general-purpose computer programming language designed to produce programs that will run on any computer system.

A shape like that of a letter C

A large island in the Malay Archipelago, forming part of Indonesia; population 120,000,000 (est. 2008) (with Madura).

The first note of the diatonic scale of C major, the major scale having no sharps or flats.

Brewed coffee.

The Roman numeral for 100.

A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.

A computer programming language originally developed for implementing the Unix operating system.

Coffee in general.

A widely used programming language.

A dance popular in France in the early 20th century.

The third letter of the modern English alphabet.

One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.

Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter c.

Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.

The third in a series.

An object-oriented computer programming language, derived largely from C++, used widely for design and display of web pages on the world-wide web. It is an interpreted language, and has been suggested as a platform-independent code to allow execution of the same progam under multiple operating systems without recompiling. The language is still (1997) under active development, and is evolving.

Something shaped like the letter C.

An island in Indonesia south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions

C The third best or third highest in quality or rank

A beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans;

The first tone in the scale of C major or the third tone in the relative minor scale.

A simple platform-independent object-oriented programming language used for writing applets that are downloaded from the World Wide Web by a client and run on the client's machine

A key or scale in which the tone of C is the tonic.

A written or printed note representing this tone.

A string, key, or pipe tuned to the pitch of this tone.

A widely used object-oriented programming language based on C.

Alternative form of c.

Alternative form of c.

C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek

The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same.

As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for 200, etc.

A degree on the Centigrade scale of temperature

The speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second

One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)

A base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine

An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds

Ten 10s

A unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second

A general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system

The 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet

Street names for cocaine

Being ten more than ninety