From this article (link from /.): http://sztywny.titaniumhosting.com/2006/07/23/stiff-asks-great-programmers-answers/
Q: What do you think will be the next big thing in computer programming? X-oriented programming, y language, quantum computers, what? A. (Linus Torvalds) I don’t think we’ll see a „big jump”. We’ve seen a lot of tools to help make all the everyday drudgery easier - with high-level languages and perhaps the integration of simple databases into the language being the main ones. But most of the buzz-words have been of pretty limited use. For example, I personally believe that „Visual Basic” did more for programming than „Object-Oriented Languages” did. Yet people laugh at VB and say it’s a bad language, and they’ve been talking about OO languages for decades. And no, Visual Basic wasn’t a great language, but I think the easy DB interfaces in VB were fundmantally more important than object orientation is, for example. The article is responses to questions from some well-known programmers (including Guido van Rossum, Linus, Bjarne Stroustrupand James Gosling) - interesting. Jim _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
