On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Joshua Bloch <jjb at google.com> wrote: > Starting with a nearly blank slate and a target use-case seems like a > prudent approach. > It is, for API design. Not so much for language design. See < http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/09/failure-of-imagination-in-language_17.html >. Cheers, Neal