And it won't right along with fundamental CS paradigms like functional programming. Useful ideas tend to be sticky because well...they are useful. This one has

And it won't right along with fundamental CS paradigms like functional programming. Useful ideas tend to be sticky because well...they are useful. This one has been around long before computers existed and the chances of it going away are low to none. Note: Heck, even Java will probably stick around for quite a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯