My point isn't that there's something intrinsic to Java that leads to nightmarish codebases, but there must be something associated with the Java brand name that leads to it. I haven't seen such a large percentage of this lack of skill affiliated with any other language (granted, I haven't spent much time working with, e.g., VB or PHP codebases).

I don't know what it is about Java that seems to encourage the mess, but there is something.