There's a meme out there that Java is the new COBOL. The rationale is summarised nicely in the first couple of paragraphs of this Wiki page, before they ramble off into a rant about how Smalltalk should have taken over the world:Is Java the new Cobol? A good argument can be made that yes, it is. Considering the billions of lines of Cobol code that ( Read more... )

In a world such as this one, filled with war, famine, impending ecological collapse and Celtic fans, it really ought to take more to horrify me than this. But I guess I'm shallow that way ( Read more... )