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Re: Roof's broken

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On 12/10/2015 8:12 AM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> Some 10 or 15 years ago Java was new and we were hesitant to write
> anything with it.  VB.NET was #1.

VB.NET is from 2002. Do you mean VB6?

>                           Java has come a long way since and
> hopefully is the language of the future.

Not *the* language for the future.

But *a* language for the short & mid term future.

Difficult to predict long term future in IT.

> I believe Objective-C is dead

No dead but expected to decline.

>                                   I heard it was closed source and
> you had to pay to use it.

Objective-C is a language.

Several implementations exist.

Apples traditional implementation for MacOS(X) and iOS may be
closed source [not sure - I do not follow that world
so closely].

But GCC and clang are open source and supports Objective-C
[again - I am not si sure about whether there are dialect differences].

Arne

>                     Swift is now a free open source language
> that can code OSX as well as iOS.

Swift is also a significant more modern language I believe.

Arne

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Re: Roof's broken Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2015-12-09 07:37 +0100
  Re: Roof's broken Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-12-09 20:15 -0500
    Re: Roof's broken Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 05:12 -0800
      Re: Roof's broken Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-12-10 18:42 -0500

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