A lot of corporate middleware is built in Java, which means that its major frameworks are heavily developed and tested, and support much more heavy-duty coding (in terms of architectural levers to use) than some of the newer, hacker-built languages can. As your classmate implies, it's usually treated as an enterprise language (clunky and slow, but trustworthy and experienced) rather than a hacker one (young and inexperienced, but smart and agile).
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Date: 2009-01-14 12:09 am (UTC)