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nikmanG
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!rant per se

It’s funny, until junior year of uni I was a strong advocate of Java and was willing to argue the case for it. One thing that I definitely was taught in uni that a language is just a tool (for the most part). It’s the theory that matters, and that can be applied pretty well to most languages. Have come to the point that I actually get frustrated when people get into arguments of language X being shit or inferior to language Y.
Like many people perceive college as a place to just learn programming and stuff like discrete structures and theory as being time wasting, but i have come to realise that it’s quite the opposite, if you know the concept of something, applying it to a language is easier than learning how to do something in a certain language and then bitch and moan that “it can’t be done” in another language you are forced to work with.

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  • 5
    Yes! Yes!
  • 2
    i began with java and thought java would solve every problem
    later i realized that i focused too much on the language rather than the concepts and that there's such a universe of languages/flavors yet to explore😊
  • 0
    Concepts are always more important than the language used. I work with a couple of old school guys who refuse to write anything but Java. Thankfully I'm not on a team with them, because at some point they're gonna have to go
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