Re: Java is becoming the new Cobol


Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:11:02 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There will almost certainly be newer languages that will improve on areas
not beng well served by current ones, but they will be built around the
OO
paradigm and they will not be mutually exclusive with existing languages
like Java.

For this reason, we are not going to see the "end of Java" anytime soon.

A big plus that Java has that CoBOL doesn't is that it is cheap and
easy for people getting interested in programming to acquire and use.
Those guys don't care that it's OO, only that it's available and
works.


Are you seriously claiming that CoBOL is NOT easy to learn and use? (I'm
not sure what you mean by "acquire").


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