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When it came out in 1995, as a then-C++ programmer, I can tell you that Java was an absolute dream to program in and a breath of fresh air.


Indeed, we would even put up with it being interpreted hoping for better days, which eventually came.

My pet peeve was trying to write portable C or C++ code, even across UNIX platforms, let alone when one would add Windows and or non-POSIX systems into the mix.




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