I was there until Java... the truth is that C++ in 1997 was a nightmare wrapped in a barbed wire horror story IF YOU WERE WRITING ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE java was a

I was there until Java... the truth is that C++ in 1997 was a nightmare wrapped in a barbed wire horror story IF YOU WERE WRITING ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE java was a god send. Ok, it's wordy, ok it doesn't have a REPL but if you were living the life 20 years ago it was a godsend. The downside was that it took about £300 a day out of the market for contractors in 3 years.