There was that gaping pause after Java 6. I learned that version in high school, took the AP test, went to college, graduated, and got a software engineering j

There was that gaping pause after Java 6. I learned that version in high school, took the AP test, went to college, graduated, and got a software engineering job, and it was still Java SE 6. It's almost incomprehensible nowadays to imagine a programming language with that kind of stasis for five years.