Re: Oracle and Java. Does Oracle know something some of us don't?

From: Tim X <timx_at_spamto.devnul.com>
Date: 25 Jan 2003 15:25:39 +1100
Message-ID: <874r7xvosc.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au>

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Mitchell <rjmitchell_at_attbi.com> writes:

 Rob> Being in the software development business for over 16 years
 Rob> now, it seems to me that languages come and go but the overall
 Rob> technology seems to be quite cyclical.  We went from mainframes
 Rob> to minis to workstations to PC, from central processing to
 Rob> distributed processing and (with J2EE) back to central
 Rob> processing. We went from proprietary communication technologies
 Rob> (big and small) to non-proprietary (small and fast) and back to
 Rob> message oriented communication (verbose again).

 Rob> Languages are just that, languages.  Mostly hype, IMHO. Sure,

 Rob> they get the job done, but they'll only be around for a few  Rob> years before morphing into a new language.

 Rob> Its important for us technologists to keep focusing on solving  Rob> problems and innovating solutions.

 Rob> OK, back to coding now.

Its like a friend of mine always says

"Its just like hem lines - they go up, they go down and then they go back up again, the styles may change slightly, but its all essentially the same."

Tim

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Received on Fri Jan 24 2003 - 22:25:39 CST