Mission Accomplished!

A lot of people are linking to this article about the state of the practice in CS curriculum and its use of Java creating dull replaceable drones.

mdehaan points out a wonderful section wherein the authors relate Java programming to a plumber in a hardware store, finding pieces and putting them together to solve a problem, rather than their unmentioned alternative (maybe an artist molding clay?)

If this is true, then we, the software industry and software engineering fields, are done. We have found the holy grail: true modularity and reusable software components. Drop whatever language you're using and switch to Java.