Eric Hopper

It seems to me that the lesson is to stop using Java. :-)

Though, in truth, while I think Java has several misfeatures that make it prone to ugly code, I don’t think ugly code is really the fault of Java. I blame most of the problems I see in Java on the culture surrounding it.

This is correct and mostly accurate. There are special cases of course, like where the line touches on a tangent, it’s considered two points. And if a line is completely vertical, then the third point is sort of infinity, but because it works out nicely, that’s generally considered to be the number 0.

I don’t think worrying about her moral quality is particularly useful. Worrying about other people’s morality very rarely is. And so I don’t think your article needs to pander to those people who do.

The rest of your article, which encourages people to think analytically about what’s going on behind the scenes and encourages…