Dear Log,
Guy Steele is working on...
a successor to
FORTRAN!?
Fortress
ziggy on 2006-05-18T13:45:01
Why is that so surprising?  Guy has been working on it for a few years.  He's obviously a big lisp head, and knows exactly where, why and how Java sucks.
Besides, Java was the one true language for the great unwashed.  We still need a post-Java language for the rest of us.
 :-)