Oracle on Java Futures - "More OO!" "We're still cool!"

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Long boring post about Java 9/10/... at The Register, but some fun things embedded in there nevertheless.
“Java is not the new Cobol,” Ritter said. “I've seen analyst reports where Java is the new Cobol where it drifts off into insignificance but I don't believe it is that way.”
which, of course, smacks of Bill Clinton's plaintive "The president is still relevant" line.  I mean, come on, you don't say stuff like that...
“This requires more discussion, to make Java a true Object-Oriented language,” Ritter said of the potential move to OO.
Which, of course, promptly causes furious head-scratching from the billions of java-dweebs out there who are thinking to themselves "Huh?  I thought it was OO?".  Of course, there is the simultaneous snickering from all seventeen smalltalk developers out there saying "Well, d-uh. About time too!".

Fun times indeed :-)

Note:  For what its worth, my opinion on OO/Java

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