I'd say it runs distant descendants of Java. The fact that Gates lost sleep not only over Java, but over JavaBeans is undeniably funny. JavaBeans delivered frus

I'd say it runs distant descendants of Java. The fact that Gates lost sleep not only over Java, but over JavaBeans is undeniably funny. JavaBeans delivered frustration and secure employment for a legion of developers. Just a couple of weeks ago we got a reminder of how horrible early Enterprise Java was, with the Log4j exploit. The kind of thing everyone goes, "why would they think that was a good idea?" today, but the answer then was "almost everyone, certainly everyone who makes decisions..."