Kevin Barnes brilliantly sums up the two language camps:
> The advocates of freedom languages tend to talk first about the speed and efficiency of the individual programmer. They discuss the expressive power of different constructs and focus on all the powerful features that the safety languages lack. They point out complex patterns and show off twenty-line systems that do the same thing. They talk more about the ease or purity of things than the safety of things. They are dismissive of static-type-safety and compile-time validation in general.
link: http://www.journalhome.com/codecraft/9003/
Meanwhile, Peter Yared, now with ActiveGrid, has a few choice words of his own:
> Peter Yared, former CTO for Sun J2EE app server unit says Java/J2EE may lose out to Open Source technologies in the future, as IT managers are architects get tired of the time and cost of building in Java.
link: http://idevnews.com/CaseStudies.asp?ID=170