From: Tom Gilbert <tom@...>
Date: 2002-09-05T08:27:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Java, et. al.

* Michael Campbell (michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com) 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?

Hehehe. I know of an awful lot of java code that is just *never* going
to go away.

It's the ultimate bad smell :)p

Tom.
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