Regardless of how they might have used LLMs, I tend to have an issue with this kind of complaint, given the C++ example code on the Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software book, released in 1994, 2 years before Java was made public.
Or the examples from "Using the Booch Method: A Rational Approach", "Designing Object Oriented C++ Applications Using The Booch Method", or "Using the Booch Method: A Rational Approach".
Additional there are enough framework examples starting with Turbo Vision in 1990, MacAPP in 1989, OWL in 1991, MFC in 1992,....
Somehow a C++ style that was prevalent in the industry between 1990 and 1996, that I bet plenty of devs still have to maintain in 2026, has become "Java in C++".
There's not much mystery about that - Java took that approach and ran with it, and now has much greater mindshare than C++.
Also, the mid-90s were before most software developers working today were born, I suspect. They'd have to go find a graybeard and ask them to tell them tales of yore, to find out about any of this.
What Java code?
Regardless of how they might have used LLMs, I tend to have an issue with this kind of complaint, given the C++ example code on the Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software book, released in 1994, 2 years before Java was made public.
Or the examples from "Using the Booch Method: A Rational Approach", "Designing Object Oriented C++ Applications Using The Booch Method", or "Using the Booch Method: A Rational Approach".
Additional there are enough framework examples starting with Turbo Vision in 1990, MacAPP in 1989, OWL in 1991, MFC in 1992,....
Somehow a C++ style that was prevalent in the industry between 1990 and 1996, that I bet plenty of devs still have to maintain in 2026, has become "Java in C++".
> Somehow
There's not much mystery about that - Java took that approach and ran with it, and now has much greater mindshare than C++.
Also, the mid-90s were before most software developers working today were born, I suspect. They'd have to go find a graybeard and ask them to tell them tales of yore, to find out about any of this.
We gladly tell bonefire tales. :)
No, it doesn't.