[sbanach]

Really? requiring a shell alias or a one line shell script to shorten your invocation makes the entire language 'totally unusable'?

[jjohns]

You kinda have to agree that writing anything in Java isn't exactly... "fast". That said, I don't use Java for "quick answers" -- if I want something that super easy and needed tomorrow, I'll do it in Ruby (especially if I know that it's not going to need to scale massively or get tons a hits and requests).

[djhworld]

It makes distribution a PITA and faffing around with the classpath string is also a PITA