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by jpinkerton88 4632 days ago
it would be in java...
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Damn! It figures boring insurance code would be written in rock solid tried and true technology that hipster kids dislike!
C# has all of those listed features, yet is still usually considered at least okay by hipsters. :)
"rock solid tried and true technology"

Thanks. I needed a good laugh for the day.

i didn't say anything negative
Why not? Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon all use a lot of Java. It's come a long way since when Microsoft shipped rollover buttons via Java applets in MS FrontPage.
i didn't say it shouldn't be
...because Obama lived in Indonesia?