Everything may be. You're missing my point: if someone makes a claim, as you said, should provide "proof", I think in this context one study would suffice. Othe

Everything may be. You're missing my point: if someone makes a claim, as you said, should provide "proof", I think in this context one study would suffice. Otherwise he should use different tones, like "maybe", "in my humble opinion", "I'd like to know if..." but I guess it wouldn't make lots of visits to his website. I just pointed out a possibility that invalidates his claims (if proved of course). This suffices to show that a study is needed, in either direction, to say something about the topic at hand. The fact remains: Java is out there and widely used. Let me remark I'm not saying it's necessarily a merit of the language per se