The programming language / IDE which kickstarted my career, Turbo Pascal was 40 years old last week. Of course I did not start programming 40 years ago. Version 6 was released in the same year I got my first PC.

Turbo Pascal was not my first programming environment. I was 6 years old and was happy …

YouTube just recommended me this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZibsO2doQjU

tl;dr Java is simplifying the way you declare your program’s entry point.

What used to look like this:

class Program {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello World"); …