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From: perez@VNET.IBM.COM (Carlos Perez)
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 12:14:45 MDT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future?
Date: 1994-09-29T12:14:45-06:00
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In article <36cvaj$7l4@source.asset.com>,
 on 28 Sep 1994 19:47:31 -0400,
 Michael M. Bishop <bishopm@source.asset.com> writes:
>In article <CwLAx0.GxJ@world.std.com>,
>Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com> wrote:
>[snip]
>>   One of the questions was: "What will be the dominant programming language?"
>>with the following responses:
>>
>>BELL:  Visual Basic, Mosaic markup language, C++, Cobol, Fortran, Telescript
>>LUCKY: C++. There will be too much investment in code to change this.
>>MYHRVOLD: C and C++
>>RASKIN: BASIC
>>WARNOCK: C
>[snip]
>
>If you had asked this question twenty years ago, how many "experts"
>would have predicted that C or C++ would be a dominant language? I know
>C++ didn't exist then, but C did. I doubt that anyone back then would
>have expected it to be a dominant language. Therefore, from the above,
>no one can conclude that Ada will not be a dominant language. As for
>comments on the above, although Cobol and Fortran are dominant languages
>now and will be in the near future, their influence will decline. As
>more and more companies realize that there are big bucks in
>reengineering, applications in those languages will be reengineered
>using modern languages. And I have to wonder about that Raskin guy (unless
>he means Visual Basic :-).
>--
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>| Member: Team Ada         | and the entire world.                  |

In the future, we will all be programming in Visual Assembler, using
a methodology called OOH (object-oriented hacking).  Ada will
be dead, so will be OS/2.  Instead, we will be using Windows MNT
(much newer technology).  Even the airplanes we fly will use
Windows/C++++ kernels for flight control, as well as TVs, VCRs,
bathrooms... (UAEs and GPFs will still happen occassionally, but no-one
will care because everyone is happy in the Post-Mandate world!).

O.K., just kidding, but its fun to speculate!

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|   Carlos Perez           Loral Federal Systems   |
|   perez@lfs.loral.com    Colorado Springs, CO    |
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