Comment Punks don't care about type inference (Score 2, Interesting) 667
I for one would like geeks to be like the lab girl in NCIS but in fact they are not. Most "punks" in IT are just doing their programmer job to get some money at the end of the month. They do not care about advanced computer language theory.
Anyway if you're one of the few geeks with piercings and really want your language to be "cutting edge" as TFA puts it, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, SISC, you name it, are available in the Java ecosystem. I'm sure you can even find some Forth dialect if you look hard.
As for most people with piercings they'll be glad to use a language that is neither too cumbersome like C or Cobol or Pascal or VB, neither too hard to understand or organize like ML or Perl or Scheme. Java is nice for them and will stay so even now Oracle has bought Sun.