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Comment by Mond_

2 days ago

...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.

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

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