"Programming in C on UNIX or Windows systems is like welding. By contrast, I call Java the hot glue of the internet. A couple of college kids can quickly put a compelling demo together by painting over something else, like making a stage set, and that demo can often attract funding, and then real users, and then it all bogs down and gets slow and sticky or it falls apart. If you've ever hot-glued anything together, a month later you know what I mean"