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It feels rare to find someone who can be honest about the shortcomings of their day-job programming language. Kudos to you!


Seriously. I've run into static from fanboys at pretty much every job because of it. People getting prickly because of criticisms about Java, because...well, they write Java. (I rarely say they know Java, but, different problem.) Seeing some frank discussion, as is going on in this thread, is really nice.




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