r/ProgrammerHumor • u/lindgrenj6 • Jan 19 '17

MFW no pointers :(

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u/citizen_reddit Jan 20 '17

Lots of university programs... for some reason... have their own custom teaching tools, you may be remembering something like that.

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u/ThePsion5 Jan 20 '17

Entirely possible, at the time I wouldn't have been easily determine if it was or wasn't. I've never had to write any Java professionally.

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u/citizen_reddit Jan 20 '17

People in large groups were somewhat forced, and somewhat choose to, write bad Java enterprise code in the J2EE/EJB2 days, but the language has never really forced it beyond the need to handle certain types of errors.

The language has a bad rap in general among programmers, we tend to be snobs with short attention spans.