[crthpl]

The idiom "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies to many situations, but books are not one of them.

[maxwell]

http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html#:~:text=book%20by%2...

[quickthrower2]

TIL:

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Are there more of these, what is this magic!

[diego_sandoval]

At least he was totally right about Java not being a hacker language.

[mcmoor]

So, what actually makes Java successful despite all of these?