A group of software gurus gathered at TheServerSide Java Symposium to discuss the future of programming, say we should expect to see more dynamic languages and possibly <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2107637,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">a new major language in the next five years.</A>

During a panel discussion titled "2010: A Developer's Odyssey" at the symposium, Eugene Ciurana, an enterprise architect at Walmart.com, said in the next few years he expects to see "more scripting languages added to the JVM [Java Virtual Machine], especially with Java 6, and to make it easier and make development a lot faster."