I just have to say it. Is Java the COBOL of the 90's? I used to hear people say they would only program in Visual C++ and nothing else. They wanted to windows programming and nothing else. They wanted to be Microsoft junkies. I had this vision of thousands of out of work Visual C++ programmers standing on a street corner hawking windows apps for pennies.
Now I am seeing the same thing with Java. Java this, Java that. So many coffee metaphors. Too many coffee metaphors. Not enough computer science or just plain engineering.
I fear that people will be only able to make cute little animations jump across the screen and no one will be left who can actually tell me how the machine actually works.