[lug] Software patents

[Lee Woodworth]

Nate Duehr wrote:
> I'm not even going to guess why Java took off... it's about the most  
> bloated crap I've ever seen.  Marketing money I guess.  It doesn't do  
> anything that a good developer library and some discipline in code  
> writing couldn't accomplish ten years earlier.  Its appeal still  
> baffles me.

When was the last time you seriously looked at it? Do you know what
dependency injection is? ORM (which is being copied for .net)? ....