Been Quote by Brian Behlendorf

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Java the language is almost irrelevant. It's the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I've seen compilers for ML, compilers for Scheme, compilers…

— James Gosling

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed…

— Alan Kay

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

— Bruce Tate

So in a strong sense with Java it was a learning process for us - there was some tech learning - but the most…

— James Gosling

You see people doing Java-based internal applications all over the place, regular desktop applications that are sort of front-ends to the things in the…

— James Gosling

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

— Bill Gates

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing…

— Alan Kay

If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect.

— James Gosling

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

— James Gosling