[swah]

I was actually thinking of Ruby/Python folks, perhaps there is a group that will skip Java/C/C++ entirely.

Against C there is always the "Java makes it more difficult for you to mess things up" argument...

[beagle3]

Yep. It's much harder to mess things up when you use regular expression.

Between C, Python and Jython, I don't think there's a single reason left to use Java.