From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2002-12-17T18:33:58+09:00
Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

Paul J. Sanchez wrote:
>>>>>>"SF" == Shannon Fang <xrfang@hotmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
> 
>     SF> Hi Phil, You are absolutely right. What they fear is that:
> 
>     SF> 1. Currently only I understand Ruby.  2. Java is in
>     SF> vogue. They want the language to be there after 10-20 years...
> 
> If that's their concern, pick ruby over Java - It's not at all clear
> what the long term viability of Sun is, and Java belongs to Sun.
> 
> 

If you want long term stability then you want

COBOL, FORTRAN or LISP

these languages have been going a very long time and are not going to 
disappear in the next 10 to 20 years.

If stability is what you really want that is?

Does anyone really expect a program to be still used 20 years later in 
its origonally written form, I know it happens but is it a realistic 
requirement of 99% of the code written?