Jorgen wrote:
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I have seen languages that promised to be the last relevant: Ada, Eiffel, C++, Java, C## and what do you know: the only language that is forever is good old C.
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I'm not sure about the other languages on your list, but I can say with some confidence that the
designers of Ada did
not claim that it would be the last relevant language -- and James Gosling certainly doesn't make that claim for Java, either. As for languages being "forever," the last study I saw seemed to say that C and Java are only just now catching up with COBOL and Fortran in number of lines of code in fielded (and still maintained) systems. C isn't forever (yet, at least), when compared to COBOL or Fortran.
Xenophon
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Is there an OpenReader program in the works for any of the eInk readers? NatCh is quite correct to focus on that important question...
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