Graham Glass on Programming Languages

Graham Glass...

"i truly believe that the days of coding software using low-level languages like java will be over in 5 years or less."

But I'm not sure what Graham means when he writes...

"frankly, i would have written glue and fabric (which would be classified as system-level software) using higher-level tools had they been available."

Graham was a Smalltalk (and Gemstone, I believe) developer before moving to Java. (Somewhere in there with he also worked with C++.) Maybe he was among the legions of Smalltalk developers who assumed it would die under the pressure of Java. Ha!