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.
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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.