Why Studying C++ and Java at University led to my lifelong hatred of Programming.
How an unresolved trauma at university has led to a lifelong antipathy.
I hate programming languages with a serious passion; From Algol 60 to Cobol and from C++ to Java and everything else that has come ever since. And please don’t mention the latest incarnation —python — to me, under any circumstances, if you don’t want to end up being eviscerated on a grand scale.
The supreme paradox, here, is that my diploma and bachelor’s degree were in acquired in Computer programming and Information Systems, a lifetime ago.
For those who came of age, back in the 1990s in the United Kingdom, A levels or BTEC in computer studies meant learning about the control units (CU), central processing units (CPU), random access memory (RAM) and of course, languages, such as C++ and Java.
For all would be medium readers, already bored senseless, wondering what on earth C++ and Java are, I will provide a quick synopsis, with the aid of Wikipedia.
C++
According to its inventor Bjarne Stroustrop, C++ signifies an evolutionary upgrade from its predecessor, C.
Its underpinning philosophy are as follows:
- It must be driven by actual problems and its features…