[Info-vax] [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kjka1s$vmo$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> >>> If Java does decline, I wonder what language will replace it ?
> >> 
> >> One that hopefully doesn't also reduce your computer's security
> >> to Swiss cheese?
> > 
> > Fortran?  Cobol?  If not, why not?
> 
> Try some newer languages, newer tools and newer operating systems.  
> Decide for yourself.

Seriously, what makes Java better than Fortran?  Don't compare it to the 
Fortran you wrote in the 60s and 70s, but to a modern version of Fortran 
(at least Fortran95, say).

There are people still writing new code in Cobol.  And no, not all are 
retrocomputing freaks.