It's job was to provide a gentle path away from C++. I'm not interested in a gentle path away from C++, I just want to write good applications. I don't hate J

It's job was to provide a gentle path away from C++. I'm not interested in a gentle path away from C++, I just want to write good applications. I don't hate Java though. I can't complain because I do all my Java programming in Scheme.