C, please die,

Just because its not currently in fashion, or wasn't adopted by the public at large doesn't mean it's dead. Ada is embedded in all kinds of automated systems, from radar installations to command & control system to jets. Not going anywhere. COBOL is fantastic for boring repetative transactional processing. Its been around forever, not going anywhere. FORTRAN is fantastic for mathmatical modelling and has decades of customized libraries for various esoteric modelling, some of which I'm sure nobody wants to try and port simply because they would have to churn through the math to make sure it was correct. (Do you want to 'port' 50+ years of libraries from Los Alamos and verify they are EXACTLY the same as the originals?) Been around forever, not going anywhere. C - First language that was widely accepted that had low-level flexibility and power, a small program footprint, and could port easily across architectures. If its embedded and not assembler, chances are its C. Not going anywhere. Java (like it or not) and its rat's nest of frameworks was the first widely accepted programming language for internet transactions (front, middle, and back end). And it is turning into the COBOL of the internet. But the world isn't going to universally trash their e-commerce systems anytime soon ( unless Larry Ellison keeps suing people for not using Java the way he thinks it s/b used). Not going anywhere. On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com> wrote: