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an exageration?an exageration?Posted Jun 24, 2004 5:17 UTC (Thu) by mbp (guest, #2737)Parent article: The New Age of Programming A C++ program from 20 years ago would have been from very early indeed in that language's development, before the first release of the standard. Would such a thing still build on today's compilers? It might, if it were in the C subset, but I don't know if a complex program would work. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html Tim Bray describe Java as "the next cobol". I think that's pretty accurate, in both a positive and negative sense: it'll probably still be running in twenty years, but it's not exactly fun. http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/languages/java/next-cobol.html
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