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I think you've missed how the computer world works, sure people still program in fortran but that doesn't mean it is still at the same working extent. cobol ->
by buugs 17y ago
I think you've missed how the computer world works, sure people still program in fortran but that doesn't mean it is still at the same working extent.
cobol -> c++ -> java actually happened pretty quickly and I'd expect when a useful alternative proves itself in a few niche senses on large scale a new language will be adopted and everyone will have something else to complain about.
- jrockway 17y agoI think you're wrong; we will have to wait and see. In the mean time, you shouldn't let the industry's stupidity affect you. Make your own language decisions. (I work with someone who went to a hard-core Java school. He is a great Perl programmer. You can hire "Java programmers" to use real languages too :)
- gaius 17y ago"Pretty quickly" in this case was at least 15 years. COBOL was the main language of the early 80s and Java of the late 90s - and it's not as if C++ has disappeared either.