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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-04-04 19:05:46 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply said:

> 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).

What was the last new (modern) programming language and IDE you learned?

> There are people still writing new code in Cobol.

Um, so?  There are folks writing code in assembler, Bliss and hundreds 
of other languages that few have ever heard of or used, too.

> And no, not all are retrocomputing freaks.

It's clear you're happy with what you have, and that you're having fun 
hacking around with your VMS servers.  By all means, use what you have, 
and continue to use it, and write your code in COBOL or Fortran (or 
FORTRAN) or BASIC or whatever  you find appropriate.

The retrocomputing enthusiasts and the OS tourists aside, and ignoring 
those folks with existing installed bases, just don't expect very many 
other folks to follow a similar path.

To find out why few folks will choose a similar path, try some of the 
newer tools and languages.



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