The Ghost In The Machine wrote: > Hmmm....when did Java lose momentum? Somehow, I missed it; > seems to me it's been chugging right along. ;-) Java loses momentum every year....it's been declared dead since 1998 or so, when Wordperfect for Java collapsed and applets proved REALLY annoying. Btw, interesting side topic about generics...i always thought that was some response to C#.... ..