Knight, who was on the panel to represent an independent view, said: "I would certainly be willing to agree that both Java and Microsoft have both gone off in the wrong direction and to some extent are following each other in circles. But there are positives and negatives. The positive is they are learning from each other and gaining best practices. The negative is they are chasing each others' tails to get feature checklists matched up, regardless of value to developers."
Meanwhile, Hejlsberg, widely known for his language expertise, having created Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C#, said, "I respect that there's a kernel of simplicity in the Java system that's probably long since been drowned out by lots of libraries" like so many other systems.
The independent minded Knight quipped: "It's interesting they would comment on the simplicity because that's the part I thought was missing."
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