This statement shows the kind of damage Java has done to the larger programming community.

Let me tell you the reason why people shudder to use to Java for things like text processing. To do as simple a task- to simply read from a file, do minimal processing(like extracting fields) and write to another, you have to deal with tens of api calls often with long names. Its extremely difficult if not impossible to remember each and every api call and the order they need to called in. So the net result is every time you need to do something, no matter how simple. You simply go to the internet, get a known-to-work-well template and just copy-paste it into your code.

And this is just the beginning, a sufficiently large Java application can be totally incomprehensible to understand, modify or develop without an IDE. Far too many nested api calls, far too much XML. Bulk of Java code today in the wild is machine generated and machine modified(I mean through IDE's)

Java these days feels like assembly language programming. You have to play with far too many api's to do even the simplest of the tasks.

No wonder people flock to a dynamic language at every chance they get.

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