Oracle created in C or Java? [closed]
According to Tom Kyte:http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::P11_QUESTION_ID:5228516811673
Oracle was originally written in fortran and then redone in C, which it has been written in ever since. In fact, when we ported Oracle to the mainframe for the first time we were faced with an issue -- do we rewrite Oracle in assembler (there was no c compiler on the mainframe back then) or do we write a C compiler? We wrote a C compiler.
The database engine itself is written in C (or C++)
See the entry for 1983 in the Oracle timeline:http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/timeline/index.html
with server code written in the C programming language