I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

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.

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

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

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.