Java has rightly been called the Cobol of the 21st Century.

Except that I would add that at the time Cobol was developed, it could be argued that the creator of Cobol did not have the huge knowledge bases at her disposal to decide on what makes a language good or bad.

Java got tremendously hyped and gazillions invested into making it better, and even then, without an IDE, most (all?) Java programmers would be stopped dead in their tracks.

For a language at the other end of the verbosity spectrum, look at J … : )

Here’s to hoping Java goes the way of Cobol, someday soon …

Best wishes,

Atish