I really don't see the flying cars of the future powered by either FORTRAN or COBOL or even a descendent thereof - these are most likely not the hundred-year la

I really don't see the flying cars of the future powered by either FORTRAN or COBOL or even a descendent thereof - these are most likely not the hundred-year language, although they'll probably still be processing pay packets for Acme Corp another 100 years beyond that ;) I see Py3k as proof positive that Guido et. al. intend to create something enduring, and I'm also reasonably excited about F# and the ML family in general. Clojure seems to have reinvigorated interest in Lisps also, but with the benefit of one of the larger available libraries. Should be an interesting decade in language development.