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They have originated from C++, fine, but it is a different language, different ecosystem, different community, different ideology and -- different idioms

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That is the thing, doing MFC, OWL, VCL, Qt, wxWidgets, DCOM, CORBA, Motif++, BeOS based applications was hardly any different from what Java became.

Yes most of these things are terrible

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