Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:21:17 +1300, "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



"Howard Brazee" <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:51:24 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I still think that the paradigm is important and that means Java will have
a
place, for a lot longer than COBOL.

Than CoBOL will, or than CoBOL has?

I can't see ANY other language (with the possible exception of FORTRAN;
successful because it is ideally adapted to the niche it serves...) having
as long a life as COBOL has and will.

If widespread in-house COBOL development ceases by 2015 (as I have
consistently predicted since 1997), COBOL will have had a "useful lifetime"
of 56 years.

C was invented in 1972. I'll bet systems software will still be written in C in 2028.
.

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