On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 21:16, phil swenson <[email protected]> wrote: [ snip ] >>"I'm not convinced that there will ever be a successor to >>Java because I don't think the world wants new general purpose >>languages. It wants sets of languages & apis & tools that are targeted >>at solving particular problems. The future is lots of languages >>running on the common JVM and underlying JRE runtime. " > > That I don't buy. I think that the key is that any new general > purpose language should be able to be bent to your will. In other > words, any possible successor should support rich meta-programming.
Sounds like a LISP to me. ;-) //ben --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
