[hybrids]

2001 was a silly time. Obviously, in any domain, there are times when we must judge a book by its cover for sake of there being only so little time in the world; but it seems so bizarre - well, maybe not bizarre for Paul Graham, but whatever - for someone to write this long-winded article talking about why "XYZ technology I've never used sucks." (Of course, Java sucks IMO, but this is a very poor critique)

I find it amusing Paul regards C's origins as being "hacker" and Java being apparently not. How exactly was Java's original design (as Oak) by James Gosling that much different under the circumstances by which C was developed by Dennis Ritchie when Bell had been reworking PDP-11 UNIX?