Re: will ada always be supported by gcc?

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Nov 21, 3:56 pm, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Robert A Duff" <bobd...@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in messagenews:wcchb1xjfic.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
>
> > leo.bre...@internode.on.net writes:
> ...
> > To answer your subject line, "will ada always be supported by gcc?":
> > I hope not ALWAYS.  ;-)  Surely 100 years from now, people will be using
> > much better programming languages than the ones we have now, including
> > Ada!
>
> Crazy optimist. ;-)
>
> 100 years from now, there will be lots of people maintaining Fortran and
> COBOL programs from the 1960s.

It's a little dated, but back in 1999 I heard a joke about a COBOL
programmer who got so frustrated fixing Y2K problems that he went nuts
and had himself cryogenically frozen and set it to wake him up in
2001.  But there was a Y2K bug in the cryogenic machine, and it didn't
wake him up, and he remained frozen until almost eight thousand years
later when some scientists unfroze him manually.  When he woke up, his
hosts showed him around the world of the future, and he was blown away
by all the technological advances that had taken place: no more cars,
because people could just teleport themselves wherever they wanted to
go, no more deadly diseases like cancer, frozen pizza that tasted
good, and many other things.  Naturally, the guy was really impressed
and told his hosts so.  "But I wonder, why did you pick this moment in
history to wake me up?"

"Because we have a Y10K problem coming up and we heard that you knew
COBOL."

                                -- Adam

(for the benefit of the two or three of you who haven't already heard
it)