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 * Very good development tools available, that if used, makes development faster than most scripting languages.
 * Strongly typed language. This makes it easier to detect errors before runtime.
+* True FOSS (Sun's OpenJDK is GPL'd)
 === Cons ===
-* Much slower to write in than scripting languages, if you use pure text editors like vi.
+* If you use the retro 1970s editor vi, then its verbosity becomes an issue. I'm not sure why we don't use an IDE with auto-completion though.
-* The Java Classpath is not FOSS.
+* Nothing like CPAN's client-side module installer until Java 7 (see JSR 277)
-* Nothing like CPAN's client-side module installer.
 == PHP 5 or 6 ==