Bernie Cosell on Java

Java didn't feel right. My old reflexes hit me. Java struck me as too authoritarian. Thats one of the reasons why I mentioned that Perl felt so good, because it's got the safety and the checks but it is so damn multidimensioned that the artist part of me has a lot of free board to express things early and to think about the right way do things. I have some freedom. When I first messed with Java—^this was /vhen it was little baby language, of course—I said, "Oh, this is just another one...