[pchristensen]

As one of the most widely used languages, it has its own bell curve. There are some brilliant people using Java to drive enormous business at big companies, a lot of middling, competent people, and some dreck. Although I would guess that Java's bell curve is heavy to the left, because people that don't do computers out interest choose Java for the money, while a portion of the smartest developers self-select into more powerful but less commercially viable languages (Python, Ruby, Lisp, Smalltalk, Erlang, etc).