Goose, gander and gosling are three sounds but one thing. (Strauss, 1994 p. 104)What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Java was, as gosling says in the first Java white paper, designed for average programmers. It's a perfectly legitimate goal to design a language for average programmers. (Or for that matter for small children, like Logo.) But it is also a legitimate, and very different, goal to design a language for good programmers.