> A possible consequence of one's first programming language could in fact be not a tainting by its methods, but, on the contrary, a persistent hatred for anyth

> A possible consequence of one's first programming language could in fact be not a tainting by its methods, but, on the contrary, a persistent hatred for anything of its kind Java was not my first programming language, but it was the one I used at my first job, so it was the one in which I first read widely about the best ways to do things. I was immersed in the Java OOP culture. I lived through the days when it was normal to review the names of a couple dozen design patterns before a coding interview. Now I feel like a witness to history, and also like someone who was raised in a cult and then left and now tells people what it was like.