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Sat, 12 Jul 2003
Java is the new COBOL
Charles Miller
ponders the role of Java in
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Expansive, inspiring, sweeping developments in the field of computer scienceThe explanation for this is simple. Java itself was none of these things. It took ideas that had been explored before and integrated them in a (arguably) simple way. After that, it was all luck -- Java was in the right place at the right time.
reminds me of an old James Gosling quote:
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I've had a lot of developers come up to me and say, "I haven't had this much fun in a long time. It sure beats writing Cobol"
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Posted by Fredrik Lundh at Mon Jul 14 01:23:22 2003
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I've had a lot of developers come up to me and say, "I haven't had this much fun in a long time. It sure beats writing Cobol"
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Posted by Fredrik Lundh at Mon Jul 14 01:23:22 2003
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