14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
2:43 p.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Jules Richardson declared on Friday 14 October 2005
01:41 pm:
It'll compile just fine. Just with a bunch of deprecation warnings.
Peace... Sridhar
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Except that the program you write against today's Java won't compile
against tomorrow's Java. What would you write it in? Clearly, you'd
want to be independent
of a particular software vendor, so the likes of Visual BASIC isn't
an option. You'd also want to write in a language that isn't nearing
obsolesence, nor one that's still evolving. "Niche" languages would
be out of the question, as longevity could be a problem.
So what would it be? My vote is for FORTRAN.
Or Java; at least it's standard, strictly defined, open (in that
bytecode format etc. is documented), cross-platform, and even if it
*were* to become obsolete in x years I can't see there not being
emulators around on current hardware of the day which can emulate a
DOS / Windows / whatever box and therefore run the compiler or
runtime.