Rules of the Game

Java - Rules of the Game

Rules of the Game Java Raises the Bar Enterprise Integration Generating the Buzz Language Features A Few Potential Suitors

You instinctively know that some programming languages will definitely not be the next big one. Lisp is productive, but the average Joe can't understand it. Perl is rich and powerful, but it's subtly inconsistent, and is prone to produce unmaintainable code. With a little vision and experience, you can apply a similar kind of reasoning to understand the types of languages that might follow Java. I suggest that we define success loosely: the language should be recognized widely and adopted broadly among developers who now use Java.

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