The majority of people Are Lazy - This is why java and other languages abstracted further than C/C++ became so popular. Functional programming is more natural a

The majority of people Are Lazy - This is why java and other languages abstracted further than C/C++ became so popular. Functional programming is more natural and comes with a smaller learning curve. It does not require the same amount of discipline to become proficient - nor the conceptual, analytical problem solver skills to master. But that is just the language, what about the design of an large scale application suite? So people with less analytic abilities and problem solving skills, (I think of those who HAD TO choose Humanities and arts majors here?) Can actually pick it up. This can be looked at as good or bad, in the long run it is probably good overall because the understanding of hardware and memory become less important as processors, memory, storage, and bandwidth become cheaper There will always be the geeks who still understand everything and can design and architect the software for the developers to code. One downside may be that those with the analytic/problem solving minds will lose their art in a sense and lose the very thing that keeps their minds sharp. Another thing worth mentioning is, there is going to be a lot of changes for developers. Wages will go down as it gets easier to learn how to program - thus more programmers flood the market (supply and demand), also their will be a separation of Architects and code monkeys - the latter being the Humanities graduate type. To sum up - This will "Dumb Down" your average developer and create a clearly defined separation between developers and designers/architects.