I never call coffee “Java”, nor do I ever hear it called that; I only know it’s a term for coffee because of a song “Java Jive” (“I love coffee, I love tea…”) which I heard performed quite well by an a cappella band in high school, and subsequently in innumerable crossword puzzle clues.
I know it’s a geographic place but I don’t think about it much, unless I happen to be marveling about the amazing and still mostly speculated history of the spread of the Polynesian people over the Pacific, which I occasionally do.
The computer language, on the other hand, I deal with (if not personally code in) on a near daily basis at work.
Yeah, a big cuppa Java. Sure, grampops – we all grew up in the great one when you were alive. It’s a gay-ass name for a pooter language invented by nerds. ETA I grew up in a whole-bean coffee shop owned by my parents, so I knew what Java was, or rather, where it was, since the time I could read, which was three).
I’ll give you that. Sure. But I’m wondering what the most immediate association is with that term. I was sitting around in the music department at school a while back, and I forget big swaths of the conversation, but someone said, “it would work better inaudible grumble JAVA!” We were talking about gamelan music, so I assumed from the context that he was talking about the island. Someone else thought he wanted to make a music applet for a computer. It turns out he wanted to go for a coffee. We all had a laugh at our triple misunderstanding, which prompted this thread many months later. So, trying to adjust for context as much as possible, I was wondering what your first guess would be!
I only think “Java = programming language” when a popup prompts me to update. I ignore it, and it goes away; and once again “java” means “coffee” in my world.
I live on Java, so of course the Indonesian island is the first thing I think of. But I am used to the fact that most often when I see the word on the internet, it is referring to a programming language.
Although selling coffee beverages instead of droids, across the infinite deserts of Tatooine, might make for a far better business model. Then Uncle Owen could trade some of his water for coffee, and get the whole family off that nasty blue milk.
Just wondering: for those who said “coffee” was their first association with the word “java” - is that actually common usage for you, and if so, where are you? As I mentioned earlier, I literally cannot recall ever hearing the word “java” for coffee except in a very old song from the 1940s (“Java Jive”) and in word puzzles. I’ve never seen it listed on a menu either. Pretty much people just say “coffee”, in my experience, unless it’s something even more specific that they want, like a “soy latte macchiatto” or some such. Occasionally, I’ll hear or give a jaunty request for “a cup o’ joe”. But never “java”.
First thought is usually this - YouTube (or what** runner pat** and a few others have mentioned), then coffee. Like others, I only think of the computer language as that @#$% thing that pops up on my 'puter pretty often wanting me to update it. The Indonesian island only in the proper context.
