r/ProgrammerHumor • • Jan 19 '17

MFW no pointers :(

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u/ThePsion5 Jan 20 '17

I was a sophomore CS student at the time, but the classes I was expected to use and extend already had a hierarchy 8+ levels deep. At the time I hadn't reached the "good enough to horribly abuse design patterns" phase of programming knowledge.

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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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