From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-05T05:08:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Java, et. al.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denys Usynin" <usynin@hep.upenn.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Ruby, Java, et. al.


> Michael Campbell wrote:
> >>Ruby won't get a chance to compete with Java... because java will
> > 
> > be dead in a 
> > 
> >>couple of years.
> > 
> > 
> > Just like COBOL was going to be, what, 15 years ago?
> > 
> > Playing Devil's Advocate here, how many years have people been saying
> > this?
> 
> what's COBOL? never heard of it. Is it some dead language? :-P

Maybe you've heard of the OO version.
It's called ADD 1 TO COBOL.

Hal