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These sorts of things make me depressed about the industry. It seems like so many fantastic ideas in the 80's (what you just described, erlang, smalltalk, etc, etc) were lost to the corporate dominance of sun and java. While java has certainly introduced some neat ideas, I can't help but wonder what the industry would be like if things had gone the other way.

Maybe I'm just looking at the past with rose colored glasses, but even using some of these languages today, they're still super compelling and elegant.