> Today, Java has made me believe his theory a little bit more. I think Java is sort of an exceptional case here in that the language stays relatively stable a

> Today, Java has made me believe his theory a little bit more. I think Java is sort of an exceptional case here in that the language stays relatively stable and evolves very little over time. Also they tend to not change internal details of the standard library without reason, so even lots of things programmers shouldn't rely on, such as behaviour of substring() will stay unchanged for quite long. Now JavaScript on the other hand probably has programmign language and framework knowledge half life of considerably less than 18 months ...