Bruce Tate is a pundit and writer of books about software, currently employed as an independent consultant. He is best know for his Java-related work, including his book "Beyond Java", a critical analysis of the Java language. Wikipedia
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Bruce Tates book Beyond Java tries to address that, and does a good job of explaining why so many experienced Java programmers are getting fed up with that language and moving to Python and Ruby. www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/10/12.html