Subj : Re: future?
To   : comp.programming
From : gswork
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 06:14 am


EventHelix.com wrote:
> Here are my $0.02:
>
> - Programming languages have got more declarative with time. I expect
> that trend to continue.
>   XAML from Microsoft seems to be another step in that direction.
>
> - C#/Java type languages will become more efficient with better JIT
> compilers, thus achieving
>   performance close to C/C++.

I'm sure this was being said in 1996 regarding Java.  In the meantime
the average PC has got so fast that i find general apps written in Java
or .NET o be just as useable as 'native' apps, after a small start up
pause on first load anyway.

>
> - Seamless integration of databases into programming languages. Direct
> support for language
>   primitives that allow operations with databases.

A good database library ontop of a standard language can have that
effect without adding too much complexity.

It's the ability to drop into databases from various platforms and over
the web that gets people going, the idea that you can have a desktop
app send some data over to a database server which is also getting
updated from some php app online, a script from another server and in
itself goes searching for updated xml here and there - that kind of
thing.

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