The Old Joel on Software Forum: Part 4 (of 5) - Java—what's the point?: "Visual Basic programmers had long got an inferiority complex. They somehow felt that they were kind of ape like. This is because Microsoft did not trust them with complex system stuff. Java meant that some of those apes could actually say 'we evolved'. This is because they can type great stuff like

import blah blah blah and also type semicolons (';')

Never underestimate the power of making men feel like men. Thats the need java fulfills.

K
Friday, April 02, 2004"