An interesting admission
Via Blaine Buxton, who got this from lemonodor:
Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++, is working on a new edition of Thinking in Java: This language, which was once hailed (admittedly, by the PR flaks at Sun itself) as being "much easier than C++" really isn't anymore.
When your strategy is to add features via complexity, that's where things end up
Comments
21st Century Cobol?
[Tom K] January 26, 2005 23:13:27.976
This touches on something that has troubled me a lot - what is the replacement for Cobol these days? Companies still have some need to develop custom applications, regardless of how all-encompassing SAP/PeopleSoft/etc. become. In the old days, Fortran and Cobol were used. Smalltalk was touted as the replacement for Cobol in the late 90's, but, with IBM dropping that ball, there's no obvious successor. Java is too complex and getting worse. VB doesn't scale terribly well, and is only useful on Windows, so what does a company use?
An interesting admission
[ James Robertson] January 26, 2005 23:26:27.905
Comment by James Robertson
Might I suggest Cincom Smalltalk?
Why rewrite?
[Isaac Gouy] January 27, 2005 0:18:40.319
The replacement for COBOL is COBOL.