>shane wrote > >>Having coded in C, Pascal and other languages I still find myself coming back >>to basic type languages for most quick and dirty jobs. It is a pity really >>that in about 5 years time it will probably be gone as M$ are pushing the >>Java^h^h^h^h c# language more and moe. >> > > >I don't think that Java will vanish within 5 years. Firstly it is >supported by IBM and Sun and secondly as we just have seen many people >still use basic. No, I meant basic would disappear ... MS is phasing it out with a hard push on Java ... err .. c# and all their leadings seem to be away from VB. Also many other platforms heading this way too (ie lotus script is being over taken by Java and Java script in Lotus domino (IBM) products).
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