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By Anya Sacharow
Patrick Naughton, the 32-year-old president of Starwave, did not invent Java. But he takes responsibility for its initiation and development. ‘The project existed because I was making it happen,’ Naughton says. He can be granted a little arrogance, because Java is no small thing. The software language built by a handful of Sun employees now aspires to be the lingua franca of the Web.
Naughton was speaking in code from the age of 16, when he bought an Atari 400 for $388 with dishwashing money.
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