danielstoner writes "The article '13 reasons why Ruby, Python and the gang will push Java to die... of old age' makes an interesting analysis of the programming languages battling for a place in programmer's mind. What really makes a language popular? What really makes a language 'good'? What is success for a programming language? Can we say COBOL is a successful language? What about Ruby, Python, etc?"http://developers.slashdot.org/slash...8/05/29/163253 Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/...opers?i=3vh9w1</img>