[runT1ME]

Shortcomings: Generics. Lack of closures. Please tell me how those are not shortcomings.

>Even the required detour of multi-core resulted in the industry's gold standard of memory models: JMM.

Which has absolutely zero to do with java the language. Did you forget what we were talking about in your second sentence?

[sharednothing]

We were discussing the "mistakes" made by the Java design team. JMM is one of their products. It is relevant to mention this fact as it supports the claim that the responsible parties have generally been also quite brilliant folks.