But for what it's worth, as a sort of time capsule, here's why I don't like the
look of Java:

1. It has been so energetically hyped. Real standards don't have to be
promoted. No one had to promote C, or Unix, or HTML. A real standard tends to
be already established by the time most people hear about it. On the hacker
radar screen, Perl is as big as Java, or bigger, just on the strength of its
own merits.

Paul Graham
"Java's Cover" - http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html