Zawinski calls C++ an "abomination... the PDP-11 assembler that thinks it's an object system". Though he has written and published many utilities in Perl, he is not without his criticisms, characterizing Perl as "combining all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript." He has criticized several language and library deficiencies he encountered while programming in Java, specifically the overhead of certain fundamental classes but especially the marketing and politics behind it that led Sun to conflate the language, the class library, the virtual machine, and the security model all under the same name, "Java" – to, he says, the detriment of them all. Despite the positive aspects, ultimately Zawinski returned to programming in C "since it's still the only way to ship portable programs". References External links 1968 births Living people American male bloggers American bloggers Emacs Free software programmers American Internet celebrities Mozilla developers Mozilla people Open source people Netscape people People from Pittsburgh Nightclub owners