本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛At one time when I was a graduate student, I was told FORTH was the future of all programming language. When JAVA came around, poeple compared it to FORTH as there were similarities. How many people still remember FORTH?
Prolog once considered an evolution as it has a higher semantic expression power than c. You can program a complex problem with only a few lines of Prolog while may need pages of code using c lanaguage. Poeple were exicited about it, especially the Japanese. How many people are still using it now?
Consider COBOL, for years people announced it dead whenever c and c++ came around. But there are still billions of lines of COBOL code produced each year. Our banking systems are still evolved around it.
Samething is true for Token Ring v.s. Ethernet, or ATM v.s. Ethernet. Do you still remember 6 years ago what poeple said about ATM? Wasn't that a future? ATM everywhere?
Simple things will survive. "Easy" means more than the superiority of the technology itself. In that aspect, Java is a clear winner compared to C++. But it is not clear to me why they made J2EE so complex. .NET has a better chance. But everybody hates Microsoft.
i just love simple stuff. So I quit programming....cannot stand its complexity.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Prolog once considered an evolution as it has a higher semantic expression power than c. You can program a complex problem with only a few lines of Prolog while may need pages of code using c lanaguage. Poeple were exicited about it, especially the Japanese. How many people are still using it now?
Consider COBOL, for years people announced it dead whenever c and c++ came around. But there are still billions of lines of COBOL code produced each year. Our banking systems are still evolved around it.
Samething is true for Token Ring v.s. Ethernet, or ATM v.s. Ethernet. Do you still remember 6 years ago what poeple said about ATM? Wasn't that a future? ATM everywhere?
Simple things will survive. "Easy" means more than the superiority of the technology itself. In that aspect, Java is a clear winner compared to C++. But it is not clear to me why they made J2EE so complex. .NET has a better chance. But everybody hates Microsoft.
i just love simple stuff. So I quit programming....cannot stand its complexity.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net