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Context: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.ht... is/was reasonably well-known, and people have been speculating on which language he meant ever since [EDIT: see reply by dpritchett]. Steve Yegge doesn't quite come out and declare his preference, but...

Sadly, he's not written anything on his blog in a while.

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Yegge has since admitted that NBL was Javascript.

Clojure hits the sweet spot between Yegge's "JVM languages shall inherit the earth" rhetoric in the fabulous "Rhinos and Tigers" talk and his longstanding fondness for Lisp. Clojure will probably never eclipse JS in mindshare even if it is a wonderful language.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/rhinos-and-tigers.ht...

> Yegge has since admitted that NBL was Javascript.

Not really, no.

I work with Steve, and he's always been saddened that nobody really understood that the language he describes in his NBL article doesn't exist. He was hoping that someone would invent it.

During his OSCON 2007 talk, Steve does say that "NBL" is JavaScript 2. Watch http://blip.tv/file/319044/ around the 24:40m mark. Then again, I don't know what's his opinion at press-time.

"NBL is JavaScript 2 / EcmaScript 4."

http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/

Of course ES4 was scuttled so I guess you're right. It can still be created.

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