Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

"Robert" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:21:17 +1300, "Pete Dashwood" 
> <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
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>>"Howard Brazee" <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:51:24 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
>>> <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I still think that the paradigm is im****tant and that means Java will 
>>>>have
>>>>a
>>>>place, for a lot longer than COBOL.
>>>
>>> Than CoBOL will, or than CoBOL has?
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.

I don't think so :-)

By then, if I'm still alive, I certainly won't be caring... :-)

Pete.
-- 
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."