The next big programming language ... won't be a programming language
By Sean McGrath
The industry seems to be in one of its "Gee, I wonder what's next? What's the next Big Thing?" phases at the moment in the field of software development.
Why this should be happening now is an interesting question in itself. Let's spend a minute on that one before proceeding. It could simply be that the big guns of Cobol/Java/C++/C#/PHP/ASP/Perl/Python and so on have been around long enough for the industry to appear to be on some sort of stable plateau. If there is one thing that this restless industry is always bent on destroying, it is those nasty stable plateaux. The grass is always greener on the other side. Even if it isn't greener, it might be profitable so let's go there... (Apologies, cynicism crept in there for a moment!)
Read the full article here.
The industry seems to be in one of its "Gee, I wonder what's next? What's the next Big Thing?" phases at the moment in the field of software development.
Why this should be happening now is an interesting question in itself. Let's spend a minute on that one before proceeding. It could simply be that the big guns of Cobol/Java/C++/C#/PHP/ASP/Perl/Python and so on have been around long enough for the industry to appear to be on some sort of stable plateau. If there is one thing that this restless industry is always bent on destroying, it is those nasty stable plateaux. The grass is always greener on the other side. Even if it isn't greener, it might be profitable so let's go there... (Apologies, cynicism crept in there for a moment!)
Read the full article here.
posted by ITworld Editors at 11:48 AM
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