With the exceptions of Perl and perhaps Ada, I still tend to agree with this. C++ is only okay because of the libraries that make it suck less. What the statem

With the exceptions of Perl and perhaps Ada, I still tend to agree with this. C++ is only okay because of the libraries that make it suck less. What the statement doesn't do is support the opinion that Java will be unpopular for being a bad language. The thing that made Java succeed was the write-once-run-everywhere JVM and the huge effort spent by Sun, IBM, and others to make the JVM as good as it is.