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From: bishopm@source.asset.com (Michael M. Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future?
Date: 28 Sep 1994 19:47:31 -0400
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Date: 1994-09-28T19:47:31-04:00
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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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