Great Hacking vs Great Writing

The java blog world is up in arms about Paul Graham's anti-java tone in his recent controversial post.

See here and here for instance.

If you are a passionate programmer, Paul's writing can be very inspirational. His ongoing anti-java bias is, however, very offputting. Regardless of your preferred language, at the end of the day, we're programming finite state automata. Different languages give us more or less abstraction levels, possibly allowing certain concepts to be expressed more succinctly, but nothing can change the fact that all we are doing is manipulating bytes, comparing bytes and diverting to other memory locations based on those comparisons.

Update:

Here is a well written response, the last sentence in particular is very telling.
Here, on the other hand, is a cutting response, and the comments are even better - check out Starsky McFlirt's comments: " Oh sorry, I forgot, he also applied a basic statistical concept to email filtering as well that worked for like at least one year. Somebody give the man a f**kin Nobel prize tout suite. " still has me chuckling.