Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle
Article appears to be a mis-statment of the actual quote (from http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120515120106322)  > Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn't
  > have told you the first thing about Java before this
  > problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount
  > of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of
  > code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do
  > it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that
  > when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an
  > accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding
  > them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best
  > lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of
  > argument? 

It sounds like the judge is saying that he has written code before, just not in Java. Presumably this was some time ago, before he decided to become a judge.