Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Dynamic Languages on the JVM

In certain parts of the world it is said that there are three things that can never be known to any man: The hour of one's death, the true name of Allah, and the current status of JSR-292.

Nevertheless, it seems clear that the fruits of JSR-292 will be folded into Dolphin (Java 7, to be released in 2008).

Let's see, that's (how many is it?) thirteen years that it took Sun to realize some people may actually want to do serious programming in something other than you-know-what.