Chariot Solutions’ director of training and mentoring services, Ken Rimple, is a programmer who has worked with web-based technology since the late ’90s. Back then, he was growing tired of using different systems for different platforms. Languages like C++ were still fairly primitive and required a lot of effort to use.

Java changed all of that.

“Java said, ‘We’re going to let you write this code once and you could run it on your servers and desktops,'” he said. “I got into it because it wasn’t as cryptic or hard to understand for programmers when stuff went wrong. That’s why a lot of developers said it changed the game.”

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