"I read a book about Java, and found it an elegant further development from C. But I have never used it. I did write some code in Java once, but the code was in

"I read a book about Java, and found it an elegant further development from C. But I have never used it. I did write some code in Java once, but the code was in C and Lisp (I simply happened to be in Java at the time)." - could someone explain this passage? Edit: does he mean the island Java?