I would have been surprised by lots of
languages popping up. Academia and commercial IT like a set of limited choices.
At teh moment I can be coding in Delphi, C# and Ironpython on one task, with a bit of SQL and XML thrown in. Would I like more language choices, for what purpose.
A better functional language than F#, could be, a better OO one than C#, not seeing it. Pascal# for unmanaged instead of C++, well okay but not many would agree.
I think the biggest though unsurprising disappointment for me is how few are looking at what they want to code and think, that would probably be easier to describe in language X, instead of reaching for the familiar/proscribed tool. You know the people who think language is programming instead of language is for programming.
