William Grosso has some interesting observations about Java:
Does it strike anyone else that Java, which once was an interesting new language that had the potential to change the world, has become deeply boring ? That our lovely little language has become completely and utterly disassociated from what's interesting and innovative in the computer industry?What I find most interesting here is that these are some of the same sentiments that were being espoused two years ago at TPC4. The result? A rekindling of the spirit that is Perl, through Perl6 and re-energizing in what is now (almost) Perl 5.8.
C, C++, FORTRAN, Lisp, Pascal, etc. have all gone through this phase too. Some have survived, others haven't. Must be a sign that the luster is wearing off and the warts are starting to show.
