Java Babies

At the risk of sounding offensive: I HATE WHINY JAVA BABIES!!!

Ja·va
1. An island of Indonesia separated from Borneo by the Java Sea, an arm of the western Pacific Ocean. Center of an early Hindu Javanese civilization, Java was converted to Islam before the arrival of the Europeans (mainly the Dutch) in the late 16th century.
2. A trademark used for a programming language designed to develop applications that can operate on different platforms.
3. Brewed coffee.

ba·by pl. ba·bies
1. A very young child; an infant.
2. An unborn child; a fetus.
3. The youngest member of a family or group.
4. A very young animal.
5. An adult or young person who behaves in an infantile way.
6. Slang. A girl or young woman.
7. Informal. Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment.
8. Slang. An object of personal concern or interest: Keeping the boat in good repair is your baby.

Ja·va ba·by
1. An undergraduate in the computer science department who is characterized by the following traits:
- The first programming language they learned was Java
- They are horribly spoiled

I can conclude from my short reasearch that these people are totally and completely addicted to the STL (standard template library) and the built-in functions of Java. My first language was...well it was english and then: C++. Keep in mind that I am neither a professional programmer nor am I incredibly talented at the art of code writing, but these kids do nothing but whine and complain about how the teacher in my C++ class has to go easy on them because they're just starting out. My assignment calls for us to write a short compilation program for a made up language without the STL. Upon announcement, this sent the class into an uproar. A large contingent of students started vocally complaining and, I felt, rudely shouted at the professor that this assignment would be, "Too hard if we can't use the STL," and that they needed, "More time." For you non programmers out there, the STL allows programmer to utilize prewritten code (like algorithms or data structures). These structures often take a little more thought than, let's say a program that adds the numbers from 1 to 10. If you can't learn to write your own data structures then you will never be a decent programmer. Yes, it will be diffacult to write your very first Stack or Queue or Vector without the STL, but I'm sure you'll pull through, now shutup and go start programming!!!