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The most important next step in computing could be solving the legacy problem. A significant majority of the software that manages our lives is obsolete.
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And it will only get worse I am afraid. How many "dead" languages will there be in 20 years? I maintain a key program initially written in Fortran in 1981 and still gets new features. It is like playing Jenga but I am powerless to replace it. Pretty sure it will still be running after I retire.
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Well, you see, languages are tools. Hammers were invented quite a long time ago, and they're still produced, used, mantained and improved. Why? Because they are very good to solve some classes of problems. And that can be said for pincers, knives, C, FORTRAN nad any other tool, IMHO.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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FORTRAN is still a very good tool to solve the class of mathematical problems but you wont see many programmers making it their language of choice for that. No modern IDE, not hip, never was exposed to it, etc. many reasons I suppose. It's not still used because it's a good tool, it's still used because it would be expensive to rewrite the programs.
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Rosenne wrote: A significant majority of the software that manages our lives is obsolete.
According to whom? Just because software is old doesn't mean it's useless, it's as useful as it ever was, and given the fact that it's been maintained for so long it's likely more reliable. What do you want to use for a mission-critical system, an old program that has been doing the job fine for 30 years, or something just cooked up by the new kid?
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This is precisely the problem. It does work, it is mission critical, but it is expensive to maintain, difficult to adapt, and what does one do when the programmers who know it retire?
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That smells like opportunity, maybe I need to learn me some FORTRAN and COBOL 
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Really only available to those with multi-thousand dollar ASIC miners...
-= Reelix =-
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what are you talking about ? you don't have to mine to get it.
Actually, mining is not profitable right now, better buy it on exchanges.
The explosion of service this technology unlocks will keep us busy in the future
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Digital payments as Paypal or ApplePay arent bound to Bitcoins. So Bitcoins arent so important - only for miners and speculants. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Listening music and looking at movie works good enough with radio and TV, no need for internet, it is only good for nerds 
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if these throw-backs keep listening only to their core constituency (fat wallets with a short term view of filling the wallets even more) - then they will break our wonderful toy.
It's that's simple.
P.S. I hope Google moves all of it's offices and employment out of Europe - (vide infra).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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"You must use Windows XP since that's what we've been using for the past 10 years at this company!"
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU..........
-= Reelix =-
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"Regulators who actually understand the technology"
That will be somewhere after AI, so the technology can explain itself....
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DaveAuld wrote: Give us some credit
Republic credits or Cubits?
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True freedom does not exist in any society when any/every move communication, etc. can/may be tracked. monitored or scrutinized.
-- Martin Goff
mlgoff_59@yahoo.com
KK4EBS
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hmmm no joke icon
Martin Goff wrote: True freedom does not exist in any society when any/every move communication, etc. can/may be tracked. monitored or scrutinized.
Well that's easy, we just have to go back to 1930 or something then
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They said think BIG. I want the tools/tech to obfuscate myself in all of the tracking systems. Personally controlled/selective anonymity is freedom.
-- Martin Goff
mlgoff_59@yahoo.com
KK4EBS
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Personally, I'd really like to see the web reengineered. HTML+CSS+JS is a truly horrible combination.
Viewing the browser as a platform, its hard to envisage many worse things to choose as the basic building blocks.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I'd agree - there is no good reason for using a "human readable" communications medium between browser and client any more.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Rob Grainger wrote: HTML+CSS+JS is a truly horrible combination.
5++++++
Marc
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Seem to have hit a nerve with this one judging by responses.
(PS. Started looking at the Succinctly book, but have had to put it on hold - I'll come back to it when I'm sufficiently "bedded in" with Haskell to not find trying to learn two functional languages confusing).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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 +5
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+5 also
Thinking about intermediate language like Xamarin is doing with C# and mobile devices
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