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The Perils of Java Schools

Stefan Tilkov,

Joel Spolsky writes about the lack of challenges when teaching programming using Java. I believe he’s right — just compare the quality of popular open source software written in C to the huge amount of crap done in Java. Sometimes a higher barrier to entry is a good thing …