Java had an impact similar to COBOL in the previous generation of business apps. I used to call it COBOL for the 90s. If you don't know COBOL, it was a revolut

Java had an impact similar to COBOL in the previous generation of business apps. I used to call it COBOL for the 90s. If you don't know COBOL, it was a revolution compared to programming in Assembler. It's hard to overstate how big an improvement it was for productivity.