[jussij]

> I still found dealing with matters of classpath and javac remarkably complicated.

I started my programming career writing C and C++ using the cli and a text editor.

Some years later I ended doing some Java and to me I found it quite easy as I could see similarities with things I had learned writing C and C++.

I could see the classpath and jar files where roughly equivalent to the concept of libraries and libpath found in the C and C++ linker (only much easier to use) and the javac was roughly equivalent to the gcc or g++ command line compilers.