Why I like Java
> So yes, I enjoyed programming in Java, and being relieved of the responsibility for producing a quality product.<p>Wow. What a pompous thing to say.<p>How does this have 91 points and is on the front page of HN?<p>Per the "most horrible answers were in Java", personally, I think he's missing selection bias, in that many newbie programmers who wouldn't know what they were doing in <i>any</i> language, think they "know" Java because they took a class on it.<p>I have no problem reading critiques of Java, not concise/etc., and like Scala/etc. as much as the next guy, but "relieved of the responsibility for producing a quality product"? Wow.<p>I suppose I'll add the disclaimer that if his 3 years of putting in time writing Java were doing J2EE, then I'll understand where he's coming from. But that's not the language.