January 2006 Blog Posts
Joel’s article says that teaching Java is bad idea. Many people have disagreed because according to them every language is equally good. I think they didn’t catch the main idea that is behind the article. Java isn't good because it doesn’t require you to think too much. You don’t have to know what happens under the hood when you write particular line of code. In this case C or even C++ is much better.
I agree you have to have some knowledge in order to write a program but to be honest very often if your code compiles then it works....