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To: Brad Schoening who wrote (2520)3/31/1997 12:32:00 PM
From: David R   of 10836
 
>Regarding language wars, most Cobol programmers didn't make the switch to C, so don't get hung up on what C++ programmers decided to do about Java. Java is the next ubiquitous language. You don't want to switch ? ok, its your funeral.

The implication is that COBOL is dead. While I would not consider COBOL a strong career move, I know people who make a very good living writing and maintaining COBOL code. And I recently read an article which hilighted the growing demand for COBOL prgrammers which is complicated by the lack of COBOL courses in colleges. Regardless of technical merits, COOBOL is still going strong. COBOL devs get top $$.

You suggest that anybody who doesn't switch to Java is dead. This is a very naive assumption. Java was designed as a secure protable language. Because of this, it has inherant limitations in applications where portability is not an issue. Not to mention, it will take a language like C++ to write the underpinnings of Java (and Java itself). You can not write a Java VM (which is by nature machine dependent) with Java unless you violate the pure Java initiative and add machine/os specific extensions (and the 100% pure Java camp would never allow this). So unless all computers die except the Java VM (yea right), then Java and C++ will peacefully coexist. Programmers worth their salt, will be competent in both.
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