Hating on languages is immature and ultimately pointless. Every generation of coders seems to need at least one language to bash and project their frustrations on. It used to be VB Script, now it's PHP.
Enjoy your bashing while it lasts. Tomorrow your "{elegant,robust}" language will be the one that's obsolete.
I hate Java. ~10 years ago I thought Java was an improvement on C++ at the cost of efficiency. Unfortunately so did the "enterprise" market which infected the stack and the ecosystem that evolves around it.
Anyway, I don't think it's pointless to hate a language. By turning down projects that use Java my work life has improved significantly.
Edit: I still use Java when writing tiny multi threaded projects that communicate over TCP/IP. But, IMO everything has it's nitch.
Hating on a language that other people use is pointless. But I can see how hating on a language that you are forced to use can be somewhat rewarding for a few moments.
Enjoy your bashing while it lasts. Tomorrow your "{elegant,robust}" language will be the one that's obsolete.