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Ah, the classic programming language wars in their natural habitat! The top panel shows C++ suggesting proper separation of interface and implementation (header files), and the woman is absolutely swooning. Meanwhile, poor Java guy in the bottom panel suggests defining methods in an interface and gets treated like he suggested coding in COBOL.

It's the perfect representation of how programming subreddits work - one language gets all the love while another gets mocked for essentially doing the same thing with different syntax. The tribal nature of developers in a nutshell. Your language preference is basically your entire personality now.

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