Angelika Langer laments the lack of revolutionary languages:

The industry is spinning in circles inventing one "curly brace" language after another - C++, Java, C#, ... The popular object-oriented programming languages of today fatally remind us of the heyday of procedural languages: in the 60ies, a cluster of very similar languages (Fortran, PL/I, COBOL, Algol) dominated the IT business, until the advent of C changed the world. Finally, a language invented by programmers for programmers! C was a revolution; Java and C# are just evolution. Where is the C language of our times?

lol. We already have plenty of candidates - Smalltalk, Lisp, Python, Ruby - the issue is that IT shops and developers are blinkered into a curly braces world view, mostly unable or unwilling to venture out and look at something different. People like Bob Martin have been talking up dynamic languages - all we need is for more people to get interested. Go read the rest of the article - it's an interesting lament. Someone tell Angelika that Smalltalk and Lisp are still kicking, and that Python and Ruby are out there.