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Re:Green vs. Brown Programming Languages by ehvatum on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:11PM (#26904429)
> I'm sure there were lots of discussions about Java vs. C++ earlier in their lifespans

Rewind to 1996. I’m at the Networld/Interop conference in Las Vegas. The steel skeleton of the Ballagio looms over desert mirages, and Java is all things to all people: a wide-open utopia to be populated by new and perfect code, a new world without concern for memory management, an abstraction from everything freeing us all from needing to know anything.

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