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.

Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

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

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.