Charles L. Perkins

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Charles L. Perkins is the Founder and Chief Scientist of Virtual Rendezvous. He co-wrote a popular book on Java in October, 1995 , and created some (now historical) Java class hierarchy diagrams .

An edited except of "The Big Picture" section (thru "The Bytecodes Themselves" [1] ) of the book was published in the Premiere issue of Java Report, March 1996. [2] He has written several other books, including a number of volumes in the "Teach Yourself Java" series. [3]

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2000: Ad Hoc Networking. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2000. [4]

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