There's more to Java than the language: It's a complete ideology. The boilerplate, insistence on explicit pattern naming and the comically long identifiers are

There's more to Java than the language: It's a complete ideology. The boilerplate, insistence on explicit pattern naming and the comically long identifiers are all attempts at making boring enterprise code easy to read and modify by mass produced offshored "enterprise coders". With the UML certs that comes with them. Try putting someone of Norvig's caliber on a team of these "enterprise coders" and watch him run in circles around them. Of course, none of them could ever hope to keep up. But good luck hiring a lot of Norvigs.