...it's not a bad analogy. Developers are constantly adding and using new API's and methods, but it doesn't mean they're unable to leverage the knowledge they already have either.
Besides, Java and .NET are both designed to be less interested in the core platform as they are interested in the programming platform (ignoring, of course, that .NET is inherently a Windows development platform and not agnostic the way Java is).
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