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core memories of an Honors CS100 level c++ course where we did Java for the honors final circa ‘97 — and hiding public static void main(){} in a TI-85 because I knew I couldn’t memorize that nonsense at the time!

and being at UPRR in ‘00 when Java wasn’t yet trusted for “low level” code so we’d have Java pre-JSP html rendering but calling a c++ database layer because Java was “too slow”

Spent a week that summer finding a memory leak in a C compiler that some middleware manager had blamed on code — which really just pushed us to go Java on the whole backend after that