Academics slam Java

[Jonathan Duncan]

On 11 Jan 2008, at 08:24, Carl Youngblood wrote:

> Based merely on your description, sounds like what these guys want to
> be are some high-paid non-replaceable ivory tower academics.  While I
> agree that some languages are more productive than others, I think it
> would be naive to claim that these aspects of languages are the main
> causes of poor software quality and software project failures.
>

Agreed.  Why is the blame always laid squarely on the programming  
languages and not on the programmers or those who teach the languages?