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At 9/28/2007 01:20 AM, James Fuller wrote:
Hello, Oh, definitely...SQL was popular for only about 7 years and then abandoned. Oh, wait, it's over 20 years old, still under active development, and still the most widely used language for *new* database-related applications by at least one order (and perhaps two orders) of magnitude. Not to be too sarcastic, but almost everybody who predicts that technology X will be abandoned/overtaken/replaced in "just a few years" have had to move into new predictive fields when they're proven wrong. I can name a half-dozen programming languages that are getting 10 times as many *new* applications than newer, fancier languages that were predicted to obliterate the older ones. As an aside, I have based my time predictions on other events in the future, for example 2013/2014 is the date whereby most geophysicists and petro companies see oil usage/price attaining the critical break even point where all sorts of things become vastly unprofitable (like shipping a banana a few thousand miles).... there will be a significant impact on computing at this time as people will start (in western countries this will start; this type of decision is being made now in third world countries) making decisions like 'should I drive' or 'should I use the internet' I've been using this decision paradigm for at least a half-decade already, as do most of my friends and colleagues. I think it may have already started in the west... Feeling a bit snarky, Jim .... no doubt the former will win out. ======================================================================== Jim Melton --- Editor of ISO/IEC 9075-* (SQL) Phone: +1.801.942.0144 Co-Chair, W3C XML Query WG; F&O (etc.) editor Fax : +1.801.942.3345 Oracle Corporation Oracle Email: jim dot melton at oracle dot com 1930 Viscounti Drive Standards email: jim dot melton at acm dot org Sandy, UT 84093-1063 USA Personal email: jim at melton dot name ======================================================================== = Facts are facts. But any opinions expressed are the opinions = = only of myself and may or may not reflect the opinions of anybody = = else with whom I may or may not have discussed the issues at hand. = ========================================================================
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