martes, 22 de noviembre de 2016

The Hundred-Year Language

Without a doubt, technology is one of the things that have evolved more rapidly over the years. Simply connecting to the internet 10 years ago was a laborious task and not everyone had access since to be able to connect, first you had to connect the phone cable to the CPU and then endure a horrible sound in which the connection was established, and finally pray for that a phone call will not enter, otherwise goodbye internet.

Nowadays things have improved, but also programming languages. Some have completely disappeared as the case of COBOL, I have understand that only prevails in some banking institutions and the reason is that for these companies it is very expensive to migrate their entire system to a new language so they prefer to preserve their Neanderthal system.

No wonder Java has no future to last a hundred more years. When starting the major and being Java one of the first programming languages we learn, it is common for us that consider it great and with a lot of potential (for those who know more languages I do not think this happens to them). But with the passage of time you realize that it is not as wonderful as you thought, it is like seeing how they recorded the fantastic scene of your favorite movie and realize that it is not so fantastic like you thought.


Everything in life changes for good or for bad, but we, when belonging to a technological area, see the changes much more drastic. For this reason we must always be updated and not only be satisfied with what has been learned during the major, we can explore new alternatives of programming languages and look for that which, as the article mentions, is in the highest branch of the evolution tree, and also see those little twigs that come out of it giving life to a new and improved language.

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