As someone who (fortunately) doesn't have to write a lot of Java any more, but does have to read and understand Java source code upon occasion I have to say tha

As someone who (fortunately) doesn't have to write a lot of Java any more, but does have to read and understand Java source code upon occasion I have to say that this is a totally bogus attitude - when I read Java code I seem to spend a great deal of time playing "hunt the code that actually does something". I accept that things like Eclipse are essential to write Java but I still have to read vastly more code.