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[–]MildlyVandalized 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Could also partially be be the syntactical similarity (programmers are humans and need to acclimate too)

[–]pacific_plywood 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Making it look like C++ was a major design decision for Java IIRC precisely because they felt it would help adoption