Lindy's effect comes to mind: immaterial things that were around for a long time, are still likely to be around for a long time. So, using text files for stora

Lindy's effect comes to mind: immaterial things that were around for a long time, are still likely to be around for a long time. So, using text files for storage could be really good, if possible. A desktop application could be written as a single process binding to a port and displaying a HTML-based GUI could work as a console, probably in all kinds of unforeseen ways. As for the language, I would write it in Perl. There's gonna be an interpreter in an every UNIX based box for many years to come, and the community thinks backwards compatibility is a feature. I don't know if they'll keep it going for a hundred years, but we might also have bigger problems than keeping applications going.