Java must be the best example I know of a technology that is so solid that it has survived every kind of adversity and ill-conceived marketing, eventually findi

Java must be the best example I know of a technology that is so solid that it has survived every kind of adversity and ill-conceived marketing, eventually finding a niche anywhere but where it was intended to go. Paul's, and most other criticisms, tend to address everything but Java the language: the hype, the enterprise technology stack, the suited masses of consultants and 'architects', the bandwagon effect. It is a strong testament to Gosling's work, that something that was primarily intended for embedded systems and browser objects, then co-opted for enterprise sales to fat cat corporate clients, all the while trying and failing to be a desktop platform, eventually found success as a server-side language for web applications and playing host to a plethora of hip scripting engines running off the VM. You know you have a strong product when not even the people who own it can kill it off despite their best efforts.