Java makes me want to break something too. Like most kids in my generation (learning to program in the early 1980s) BASIC was my "first language", but it wasn'

Java makes me want to break something too. Like most kids in my generation (learning to program in the early 1980s) BASIC was my "first language", but it wasn't until I learned C at college in the late 80s that I really started to feel capable. I rarely use C for work anymore but I still "think in C" when trying to work out any sort of low-level algorithm no matter what language I wind up implementing it in (nowadays mostly Python and JavaScript).