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> He was the judge that learnt how to code so he could understand the Google Oracle case.

That's not actually true. He'd been coding since 1985 [1].

If you read until about right here, the parent comment is very valid.

> “I couldn't have told you the first thing about Java before this trial,” said the judge

Reading any past there sheds light on the judge.

Learned to code in Java I guess.