April 7th, 2009, 12:30 am
QuoteOriginally posted by: C3I2I might ad that I have friends that were forced to take mandatory Java-classes in uni where the engineering students some years earlier had C++. The theory there were Java=future C++=past "Sometimes a man can still meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. " :-)Hehe. VBA = "stone age" and it's still commonly used and popular in the financial business. As long as the legacy programs are written using a specific code and not translated into newer one like Java, all jobs opportunities will revolve around that language. That explains the longevity of VBA and C/C++. It's chicken and egg and no one wants to reinvent the wheel. But that does not mean that VBA and C++ are here to stay. We might see a new dominant language in the future but it will sure take time. I think universities want to hasten the progess by educating students using newer languages... with the hope that when they graduates go into the business world, they can adopt the new language. But it's usually the reverse case, they cannot apply it because they have to deal with the old "dinosaurs" first. How will you be able to convert the legacy C++ code to Java if you only know Java???
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