I agree too, but not with you

Weblog:		Who cares if .NET is better than Java?
Subject:		I agree too, but not with you
Date:		2003-01-19 18:32:57
From:		anonymous2
Response to: I agree too, but not with you
"Code isn't truth, it's technique. Beauty is in the abstractions, but even that is contingent on the platforms of today. If you want something eternal, I recommend becoming a mathematician." That says it all. Everybody, look back over the last 20 years. What "cool" software/technology is still being touted as great? We could all still be writing in COBOL and it would get the job done but it's not cool enough for us. I have gone from COBOL to xbase to C++ to COM to Java now to .NET in the last 15 years and I do that to keep working, not because I think that one technolgoy is much better than the next. Granted some advances make things easy or faster but overall the basic principal of mathematics when applied to comptuer science has not changed and probably never will. Read Donald Kunth's trilogy.