>At least Google had the decency to pick a language everybody was already using and use that. If you think Java is remotely comparable in power and expressiven

>At least Google had the decency to pick a language everybody was already using and use that. If you think Java is remotely comparable in power and expressiveness to Objective C, you should probably reconsider your line of work. The rise in popularity of Java nearly drove me from the industry it is such a verbose half baked pile of garbage. I could fill your browser with things you can do in Objective C that you cannot do in Java at all and this incredible flexibility is why Apple is such an agile company with such limited head count.