Like Java's strategy (http://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/education/avp/pdf/feel-of-java.pdf http://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/education/avp/pdf/feel-of-java....) Java i

Like Java's strategy (http://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/education/avp/pdf/feel-of-java.pdf http://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/education/avp/pdf/feel-of-java....) Java is a blue collar language. It's not PhD thesis material but a language for a job. Java feels very familiar to many different programmers because we preferred tried-and-tested things.