People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.

There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.