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by khedoros1 3124 days ago
> In any case if ound a lot of people really damaged by java. Its horrible what that language can do to some people's coding style and framework when thinking about problems.

What problems are you thinking of, specifically? In high school, I had a semester each of BASIC and C++, but my first serious programming was with Java in college. That is, beyond things like a "guess the number" game, getting into actual study of algorithms and data structures.

I'm mostly a C++ dev now, and I've never had complaints about my coding style. Then again, I never bought into the WidgetFactoryFactoryImpl kind of crap.