Java never mattered....? (Score 5, Insightful)

"Since Java itself never mattered except to sell books..."

Wow...that has to be one of the most idiotic statements I've ever read from one of you guys.

I'm no Java evangelist, but saying Java itself never mattered is like saying C (or even C++) never mattered - it just smacks of total ignorance.

Java has had a HUGE impact on software development, especially in the enterprise. I won't say it's all been great...but it's certainly made a difference in a lot of areas.

If the language really never matter, there would not be such a large community of developers using Java, and Microsoft would not have bothered to change their entire development platform to be so much like it (i.e. C#/CLR/.NET).

I'd thought you Slashdot guys were smarter than this. I guess I was wrong.