This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.