Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.