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		Mond_ 83 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle... ...C++ teaches good programming practices? I thought it mainly teaches you how to be paranoid, and how to keep track of the bizarre interactions of 20 bespoke historical features.

betaby 83 days ago | [–]

One can say the same about Java, although less of the paranoid part.

red_admiral 82 days ago | | [–]

The moment you have to deal with checked exceptions in a pipeline of lambdas, you become paranoid about your own sanity.

fakedang 83 days ago | [–]

Certainly better than non-typed python.

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