From: Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T04:54:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Advocacy: Ruby on/with .net

Saluton!

* Gawnsoft; 2003-07-21, 17:46 UTC:
> >I hope your grandchildren won't use Windows anymore.
> 
> Given that over 90% of the installed desktop base uses Windows, and
> that it's been successfully (in terms of market take-up) targetted at
> handheld devices and servers, this may be a forlorn hope.

I don't try to sketch an image of what computing will be in 30 years
because that is doomed to fail. Only one aspects seem to be
relatively sure: Whatever will be the operating system in 30 years or
so will almost certainly be no 2D system. Silicon Graphics is working
on a 3D user interface and so is Microsoft. Even if Microsoft happens
to keep a 90% share of the market it is *very* unlikely that their OS
will be called 'Windows'.

Maybe we are going to use the successor of Windows, maybe we are
running Linux, or maybe we are struggling with the Chinese OS that we
have to use. Who knows?

It is also not too likely that we will be using Ruby - remember how
much changes in programming language design took place since the
early 1970's.

Gis,

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
-- 
N'attribuez jamais � la malice ce que l'incomp�tence explique !
-- Napol�on