Java got its start at the cusp of the internet revolution in the early 1990s. It was created by James Gosling and his colleagues at Sun Microsystems, who wanted to use a virtual machine and language ...

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Inline comments, also known as single-line Java comments, begin with two slashes, and only impact the code on the line in which they appear. The following is an example of a single-line comment in ...