[bschiett]

They are clueless and don't know java is a programming language for lamers.

[lutusp]

> They are clueless and don't know java is a programming language for lamers.

The claim "java is a programming language for lamers" is only true if portability isn't important. Portability is important. Android's reliance on Java proves that.

If you had simply said that Java is a sucky, crippled language, I would have agreed.

[taf2]

I'm not sure portability is why android has java as its primary language ... For example http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html