The next morning, Professor Marsh wrote back: “Excellent work. But why did you put ‘java -jar thesis_final.jar’ as your title?”
He submitted at 11:59 PM.
He double-clicked the citation tool his professor had recommended. The screen flickered. Then, a small gray window appeared: this application requires a java runtime environment
Leo typed back: “Java runtime hostage situation.” The next morning, Professor Marsh wrote back: “Excellent
His phone buzzed. Professor Marsh: “Where is your submission?” The next morning
Leo stared. He had never installed Java. He didn’t even know what a runtime environment was—only that his paper’s bibliography was now a hostage.