Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? 247
First time accepted submitter liquiddark writes "I was listening to a younger coworker talk to someone the other day about legacy technologies, and he mentioned .NET as a specific example. It got me thinking — what technologies are passing from the upstart and/or mainstream phases into the world of legacy technology? What tech are you working with now that you hope to retire in the next few years? What will you replace it with?"
abaci (Score:4, Funny)
My old abacus is giving me splinters. I asked my boss for a new one and he said "cào n zzng shíb dài". I'm not sure what that means but I'm hopeful.
Re: I'd replace Java with Perl, for one. (Score:4, Funny)
ADD 1 TO THIS GIVING THAT WITH ONE CARBON COPY TO (Accounting AND Marketing BUT NOT InternalAudit).
Nuke it from orbit. All of it. (Score:5, Funny)
Javascript. PHP. Java and every stinking overarchitected hole of a framework built on top of it. C++ and it's various internal metalanguages. Anything which has appeared on more than 10% of the print-it-out-and-its-good-for-toilet-paper job ads on Dice. All the functional languages, which exist mostly to make people who know them feel superior. Go, because we didn't like Algol-68 the first time around.
I think we should just go back to counting on our fingers. From that first abacus, we were doomed.