I think it's better to say Java is another COBOL: a default choice for business, stable, and likely to hang on through several generations of programmers. I wo

I think it's better to say Java is another COBOL: a default choice for business, stable, and likely to hang on through several generations of programmers. I won't call Java the "next" COBOL until COBOL goes away. Which I predict will happen sometime between 2050 and the death of the sun...