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

[David Froble]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article <515d8fb7$0$585$e4fe514c at dreader34.news.xs4all.nl>, MG
> <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> 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?
> 

Ok, I'll try this one.

I'm guessing one of the major goals of Java was to run on just about any 
hardware and OS.  It's not real efficient, but, for most uses, it 
doesn't need to be.  When you're doing something only once, you don't 
need efficiency, you need ease of use and universal use.

Fortran, Cobol, and other compiled languages are meant to be good at 
doing things many times.