pcw888

Worth getting to the end for further reading

I would say that it's not an absence of democracy but a population skew. The Boomer demographic has been a majority stakeholder in UK elections for a long time, but it's changing naturally every year. Now you are starting to see more policies aimed at the next marginal voter group. However, it's true, we're in a mess, and none of the major political parties seem to have a viable strategy.

It's just been the corporate default for so long that people learn it for their jobs and get comfortable with it

I remember the trend away from Perl, but it's a great language. It just became unfashionable.

This is interesting because there's so much negativity towards Java, particularly new projects. But Java continues as an enterprise-class language, just as C++ does.

I was about to write something like this, but you said it all first, and better