The Year In Up and Coming Programming Languages

Rob Diana has an article about going over his predicted aspirations for 9 programming languages for 2011, and what happened to them. Some people put a lot of effort into the "next new" programming language. Keep in mind, such a thing was highly popular in the 1970's too. Though the history of modern computer science isn't long enough, perhaps this exploring-new-avenues thing is a cyclical trend.