As a teenager, I was in the Carlisle schoolboy scheme and while I was EXCITED to join at first, I LOOK BACK on it as a tough few YEARS.

Java the LANGUAGE is almost IRRELEVANT. It's the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I've seen compilers for ML, compilers for Scheme, compilers for Ada, and they all WORK. Not many people USE them, but it doesn't matter: they all work.

There's not one YEAR to the NEXT that you don't GO through a number of CHANGES, whether it's personnel, whether it's coaching, whether it's scheme.