ASF's appalling VM vassalage

Why are the Apache Software Foundation such Java loving faggots?
Why would you write high-performance scalable software in anything but C? Don't people realize their clusters could be half the size if they took the time to sit down and port the code to a real systems language?

>>15 [spoiler]Fuck/spoiler]
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
# print "Hello, world!\n"; # Procedural - don't be so silly!

invoke Hello::World->cast_spell;

package Hello::World;
sub invoke { bless shift, shift; }
sub cast_spell { print "Hello, world!"; }