any of them write a more successful language than Java? or how about Visual Basic even? For all the complaints, at least Java moved programming technology to another level on a massive scale, lest we all be complaining about C/C++ still.
as an aside, I feel old being able to talk about having programmed for years.
my first programming experience was in unstructured BASIC. I think I've managed to reverse the brain damage from that, but I can't be too sure.