Asside from the gawd awful language, the thing is that java is nothing special. ...

		GrandMasterBirt on Dec 23, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Java is Most Popular Language? Asside from the gawd awful language, the thing is that java is nothing special. If its platform native code vs VM, well we got: Java (woo) Ruby (woo-er) Python (woo-er-er) Haskel Lua Freaken' Emacs and it's lisp tons of lisp derivitives The list goes on. Java is not the only VM on the market. This article would have been good in 1996.