Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:21:17 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
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>"Howard Brazee" <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:51:24 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
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>>>I still think that the paradigm is im****tant and that means Java will
have 
>>>a
>>>place, for a lot longer than COBOL.
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>> Than CoBOL will, or than CoBOL has?
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>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.
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>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.