my rant^H^H^H^Hruminations on "enterprise" Java

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

Seth Gordon wrote:
| "Why Java is the wrong language for 'enterprise' applications"
| http://dynamic.ropine.com/yo/tech/java/enterprise.html
|
| I'd be interested in any comments more experienced Java hands have on
| this....

One of hist comments stood out in my mind: "Something a  Perl  hacker
can  do  in  an hour, a team of J2EE programmers have to spend a week
on."

My immediate reaction was "Yeah, but a team of perl programmers would
also take a week to do it. And a real java hacker would probably take
two hours."

OTOH, though I haven't used java all that much, I have seen  some  of
the symptoms that he describes.  But I thought it was just me being a
java dummy.  I guess I'm not the only one.