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Agreed. I started with Java in 96 or 97; pretty much from the beginning. For me the big win with Java as the HTML documentation of the JDK. It meant I didn't ha
by 0x445442 9y ago
Agreed. I started with Java in 96 or 97; pretty much from the beginning. For me the big win with Java as the HTML documentation of the JDK. It meant I didn't have to grep around the file system and header files to figure out what abstractions I was meant to use.
But in 2000 I started messing with other languages like Python and Perl; at which point Java became nothing more to me than tech to put food on the table.