I wonder if they would outlast terrestrial RT battery powered devices like autonomous lighthouses.

Spoken like someone who knows nothing about AI outside sci-fi.

There has been a ton of progress towards 'true' AI over the last 40 years, it just has not managed to produce one. Progress != Success, esp on such difficult problems.

Yeah, but self awareness varies ^_^

I keep hoping there will be a resurgence in GLPv2 development. While Apple is a high profile example, companies that work with embedded software have generally not been happy with what many feel were changes singling them out while not putting the same burden on other GPL users, kinda like sacrificial goats. The politics behind GPLv3 and who's needs it prioritized left a bad taste in some people's mouths.

Given the author's proclamations and supporting facts, I doubt the author has much of a real idea of anything in computing outside their narrow niche.

I doubt we'll ever get away from language wars. Beyond touching on people's egos and world views, language wars are heavily linked to very real world concerns like industry direction, priority/visibility, and employability. They are a proxy for the anxiousness people have over their own professional futures.

Pascal was never alive in the first place.

Heh. I keep forgetting that people use Python for web development.

Even setting asside that use, in scientific computing, you pretty much either use Python, Matlab, R, or FORTRAN, depending on the complexity of your non-equation needs.

"We do not know what the language of the future will look like, but it will be called FORTRAN"

Since when does Java not suffer from DLL hell? Maven tries to mitigate this, but does so about as elegantly as RPM....

*nod* while use of cloud resources has become popular in some researchers, most, when they crunch the numbers, find it to be a very bad deal and they get a lot more horsepower for their (rather thin) research buck out of local resources.

It probably does, but not in the direction you are implying. Look back on the scale of decades and you see a pattern of flipping back and forth, with the question/answer not changing much from year to year, but inverting over longer time scales.

Just because the dependencies are hidden from users does not mean they can not be impacted by them.

Untill apps get fancier and depend on greater local hardware specs.

Users have not changed all that much, the ratios of use cases are not all that different than they were in the 80s and 90s, with the majority of users having fairly modest requirements but a market with increasing hardware needs.

Probably something similar. Like the 80s and 90s we will probably get another wave of upgraded desktops overtaking the server upgrade cycle, with desktop power and storage jumping ahead and making the shared resources seem constricting and economically inefficient, and then developers (and users) will rediscover how much better things run when utilizing the greater local resources.

We will then get a decade or two of young programmers rediscovering what that 'unhirable' older ones already knew, holding themselves up as visionary geniuses for realizing things that those 'behind the times' client/server developers were 'doing wrong', attracting hype and investment dollars while repeating the same mistakes people made (and learned from) 2 generations ago.

Rinse, lather, repeat.