Bill de hÓra on The Library of Imaginary Machines (where he discusses the folucus on platforms:
"Maybe language development isn't sexy anymore. For a lot of developers now, I think programming languages just aren't all than interesting in terms of a target abstraction, or for playing around with. My generation (graduating in the late nineties) might be last that actually were interested in programming languages as an end in themselves, and even then platforms like J2EE, CORBA, and the Web were much more interesting to many."Posted by mofoghlu at May 6, 2006 05:04 PM