Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Fri, 18 May 2012 23:15:48 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:

> On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:52:00 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>
>> On 5/18/2012 3:35 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>
>>>> This is the new world order of software engineering. After 50 years
>>>> of computer science and programming languages research, the world has
>>>> decided it will be Javascript and HTML5.
>>>
>>> No. Due to opening a new market the technology (rather lack of) is
>>> returning to the point where it was 20-30 years ago. Such retreats  
>>> always
>>> happen when there is no pressure to improve quality or safety.
>>>
>>
>> That is funny you said that. I was just now thinking the same
>> thing as I was looking at a web site that tells which browsers
>> supports which feature of HTML5 and Javascript.
>>
>> The reason is, I remember doing the same thing many many
>> years ago, when I was just learning the new Java and looking
>> to see which operating system supports which features of Java
>> and such.
>>
>> So, the picture has changed from
>>
>>       app         app
>>    +----------+-----------+......
>>    | Java VM  |  Java VM  |
>>    +----------+-----------+.....
>>    |  OS      |   OS      |
>>    +----------+-----------+.....
>>
>> To now, almost 20 years later to become
>>
>>       HTML5/JS app   HTML5/JS app
>>    +--------------+--------------+.....
>>    |  browser 1   |  browser 2   |
>>    +--------------+--------------+.....
>>    |   OS         |    OS        |
>>    +--------------+--------------+.....
>>
>> Well, it is progress I guess. The Java VM was replaced by
>> the browser, and Java is replaced by HTML/Javascript.
>>
>> I can't wait to see what the picture will be 20 years from now :)
>
>          App (distributed)
>    +------+------+
>    |      OS (distributed)
>    +------+------+
>
> Layers above OS were only necessary because of retarded OSes like UNIX  
> and
> Windows. They sealed the toilet's pit. Alas, being not much more hygienic
> (I would say most of them were actually much worse) they required another
> layers above them, and so on.

Lacking things as fundamental as a minimal common and native standard UI  
API. The “that layer over that layer” is often most required for UIs. By  
the way, I still believe the web standards may be a chance in that matter.

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