Generally agreed. PL's are a part product of all of history of computing, but a bigger part is a product of the programming Zeitgeist. It's better to be a youn

Generally agreed. PL's are a part product of all of history of computing, but a bigger part is a product of the programming Zeitgeist. It's better to be a young language than to have matured 15-20 years already. Certain syntactic or other choices bite you inthe ass in a new zeitgeist. When I saw Java's implementations of lambda stuff, I cringed a bit. Java's friction in generics, due to choices made about typing, also made me say, "Ouch." I like to think I've matured out of the language and platform warrior mode enough to yield more objective consideration beyond my most-used and favorites (and are they favorites because they are most used or because they are so good?). F# has given C# a nice boost in the juicer, but certain earlier choices are ossified and make later adaptations more challenging or, potentially, near impossible to do, do well/right. I like that C# is going across OS's, but were also entering the Age of Containers and there are implications, opportunities, and challenges we have barely started considering. I don't know what the future holds, but I know there will be curly braces and that tabs will win the day again... ducks