[geeks] Java as a first language

[Phil Stracchino]

Robert Brooke Gravitt wrote:
> The worst, and I mean WORST programmers seem to evenly divided  
> between Visual Basic "developers" and Java developers. Some concepts  
> used in OO development (orthogonality, data abstraction,  
> polymorphism, etc) seem to be lost on them, and memory management is  
> lost ESPECIALLY on the Java side. GC is like magic to them. We have  
> to recycle apps daily because some geniuses can't figure out how to  
> manage their damn objects.
> 
> Learning to deal with malloc() and dealloc() will take you far.  
> Memory management & confusing procedural -vs- OOP are my top two pet  
> peeves when doing code reviews. That, and meaningless variable names.  
> We actually got this from a bug sent offshore to be fixed:
> 
> StringBuffer shiva = new StringBuffer(vishnu.toString());
> 
> I know who these two are from comparative religion class,  but how  
> the hell am I supposed to know what this variable is used for?

BTDT....

> I picked up Obj-C quickly, but then I already knew C pretty well.  
> Java is easy if you understand OOP.

Actually, I keep meaning to get around to learning the D Programming
Language, whose design goal was "A C-based object-oriented programming
language, done RIGHT."


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