Java is pro

I do not understand all the shit that java gets. According to my programming teacher, JAVA is a high tier language. Given my experience with the popular and well respected MMORPG World of Warcraft, I have come to understand that the term "high tier" refers to the cream of the crop. Why then, does JAVA take so many flames?

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Java takes flames from speed kiddies who don't program anything where high-level abstraction is useful.

Also, your professor probably meant or said that Java is a high-level programming language, meaning that it uses a lot of abstraction and hides a lot of what is actually happening behind scenes from the programmer.  Also, this makes it a lot more portable. 

This means that that it is slightly slower then low-level languages, but with good compilers and most modern computers, this isn't noticeable or as much as a drawback.