Sure.  I now know:<p>* What a great feature function pointers &#x2F; procedural types &#x2F; other call-by-name&#x2F;reference-mechanisms were. (J8 lamdas are used like function references, but are kind of heavy)<p>* What a source of mystery &quot;annotations&quot; are.<p>Java started out like an interpreted version of Delphi or UCSD Pascal disguised as a cleaned up C++, but since 1.1 it evolved slowly and&#x2F;or in the wrong ways.<p>Actually, as somebody who has been programming since 1983, in quite a few languages, Java brought little to nothing new to the table.  Nothing personal against you, I&#x27;m just sick of the Java language&#x2F;syntax and how it failed to live up to the hype.