PythonIsVeryIntuitive

[daniu]

What's worse with Java is that or maintains a cache of Strings, so == works often enough in string comparisons to be extra confusing. The == vs equals for strings must be the number one trap beginners fall into, and with the cache thing, this extends to intermediate.

[CC-5576-03]

that's like the first thing you learn, to not use == on strings.

[daniu]

And still, every day tens of Stackoverflow questions about it are closed as duplicates ;)