# When I hear Java, the first thing I think of is... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 20, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407 "2011-08-20T04:04:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/1 "2011-08-20T04:04:01Z")
See poll options, or place a fourth option I didn’t consider below. It’s come up in many confusing conversations between gamelan afficianados and computer nerds, lately! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/2 "2011-08-20T04:18:56Z")
Depends on context. Without context, probably coffee. There’s also [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r395r7V7hjo). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/3 "2011-08-20T04:25:05Z")
Looks like we’ve got a bunch of computer geeks on this board. Who’da thunk? ETA: I’m one of them… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/4 "2011-08-20T04:51:56Z")
For the first time since I’d heard of the computer language, I actually first thought of coffee. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/5 "2011-08-20T04:54:04Z")
Krakatoa, East of Java… Yes, I’m a child of the misguided 70’s. Who doesn’t drink coffee. And was confused by a customer once asking me to engrave “JAVA…Drink once, run forever” on his coffee mug. He did explain it to me. And I just went and googled “gamelan” because I had no idea… ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/6 "2011-08-20T06:17:08Z")
Krakatoa, East of Java. I know full well that it’s actually West. Then coffee, possibly because I’m drinking coffee right now (not Java though) the computing. ---
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/7 "2011-08-20T06:58:57Z")
I thought of the computer language first. Probably because my computer constantly says, “Java needs to update.” ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/8 "2011-08-20T07:34:16Z")
Among a set of choices, I tend to remember the things that annoy me more frequently. So it’s the software. I’m not even sure exactly what it does, just that I’m continually being prompted to “update” it if I want to watch videos in my browser. Or some such. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/9 "2011-08-20T07:40:50Z")
I voted “coffee”; not because of the slang term but the brand. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/10 "2011-08-20T08:18:07Z")
> [@Postariti](#): > > I thought of the computer language first. Probably because my computer constantly says, “Java needs to update.” > [@Koxinga](#): > > Among a set of choices, I tend to remember the things that annoy me more frequently. So it’s the software. I’m not even sure exactly what it does, just that I’m continually being prompted to “update” it if I want to watch videos in my browser. Or some such. This. I didn’t even think of it as “Java the computer language”; I thought of it as “Java, that thing that keeps bugging me to update it.” ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/11 "2011-08-20T10:27:40Z")
Coffee, which I’m sipping now in an attempt to wake up. Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/12 "2011-08-20T11:03:15Z")
I thought of coffee first. Even though I’ve been online for about 10 years, I didn’t think of web browser Java until it was mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/13 "2011-08-20T12:09:46Z")
Without context, just the word: software language. With context, depends on the context. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/14 "2011-08-20T12:33:05Z")
Either [moss](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_moss), or [fern.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_moss) I have both in my fish tank 😉 ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/15 "2011-08-20T12:41:34Z")
I said computer programming language. My boyfriend uses it/talks about it all the time so I hear about it all the time. Ask me 5 years ago before I knew him, 100% would have said coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/16 "2011-08-21T00:50:08Z")
The island. It’s in this part of the world. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/17 "2011-08-21T01:23:19Z")
I don’t even process it as a language anymore. It’s just that @&%^Q!\*ing update pop-up agAIN! ! ! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/18 "2011-08-21T01:36:19Z")
My second thought was Java Script, but I’ve been around far longer than that, and love coffee way too much to have a programming language supersede a nick-name for that hot deliciousness in my head. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/19 "2011-08-21T01:48:30Z")
_Itu suatu pulau lah_. It’s an island, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407/20 "2011-08-21T01:51:09Z")
Since I was just embroiled in a imbroglio amongst folk who should know better over how confusing ETA vs ETA vs ETA is, I’m not going to answer, and simply comment that context is everything. SEEING the word identifies it immediately; hearing it, not so much. I can’t answer without context, because there is ALWAYS context, even if it’s just who is saying it. But the island comes first to mind right now, simply because you capitalized it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-java-the-first-thing-i-think-of-is/593407.md?page=2)