The way you phrased that sounds to me like you've been programming for a significant amount of time. If that is the case, the Java of today offers so much that

The way you phrased that sounds to me like you've been programming for a significant amount of time. If that is the case, the Java of today offers so much that a younger Java did not, and I suspect you would have had a more unpleasant with the java of 10 years ago.