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Ted Leung extends a comment made by Phil Windley:

Phil: Java is preferable to C++ in exactly the same way that driving a 1994 Chevy Impala is preferable to driving a 1978 Ford LTD.

Ted: And of course neither is anything like a BMW, Acura, Porsche or Ferrari.

Heh. Supply your own definition of what the analogs are; you know what mine is.