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I suspect that a lot of programmers actually see programming as a chore, and I think they would prefer Java because it's very predictable and delivers a paychec
by koala_man 8y ago
I suspect that a lot of programmers actually see programming as a chore, and I think they would prefer Java because it's very predictable and delivers a paycheck.
You never hear that point of view though, because they wouldn't spend their time on Hacker News discussing their favorite languages.
- ams6110 8y agoSure, when I first started my professional programming career, I worked in a couple of COBOL shops. Most of the developers there had never used anything else, and weren't interested in anything else. It was a job. Almost all of the programs were some form of "read data from a file, do something with each record, write it back to another file or print to a report." Not much different from assembly line work except more comfortable and paid better.
- watwut 8y agoNo, it is simply not true that java programmers don't likability programming. Quite a few simply like java programming (often due to tools and economic system around it). The idea that everything java is bad, uncool and for lesser programmers was here since java came out. It was not true back then and is not true now.