Comment Re:I've seen it all. (Score 1) 265
Or TinyCOBOL. Gentoo has both in portage.
Comment Beats me why people are so dismissive of COBOL (Score 1) 265
It does a good job at stuff that nobody else seems to care about. And anyone who's seen XML should stop calling COBOL wordy. I still use COBOL when I need what it does.
Comment Second opinion (Score 1) 344
Take a look at, say, Popular Science from 1975 to see what this year was supposed to be like, before you bet too much on 30-year technology predictions.
Some of it will happen, and some of it will still be 30 years away (or more!), by 2035. And there'll be some significant stuff that nobody predicted, or could have.
"Where are the flying cars? Where are the floating cities?" -- Calvin
Some of it will happen, and some of it will still be 30 years away (or more!), by 2035. And there'll be some significant stuff that nobody predicted, or could have.
"Where are the flying cars? Where are the floating cities?" -- Calvin
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