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

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

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

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

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.

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.