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		gloob on Nov 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apache Foundation to vote down Java 7, protesting ... The amount of man-centuries of work that would at the very least now have to be ported? There are large numbers of Very Important Programs that are still written in some old dialect of Fortran. It's not like the Java 6 JVMs are going to disappear from the planet's face; businesses will just keep on using those.

rbanffy on Nov 10, 2010 [–]

And the prophecy will then be fulfilled: Java will be the 21st century COBOL.

hsuresh on Nov 10, 2010 | [–]

First COBOL of the 21st century. Am sure there will be lot more.

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