What do people mean when they say java is the next cobol?
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Sounds to me like they mean that Java will be next in line for the 'nitch' market.  Cobol really doesn't have wide accepetance in the market unless you are doing main frame work and God forbid you run a mainframe with Java as the core.\n\nIn otherwords, even though Java was a good idea..it's not catching on as fast as Sun hoped and wants, and most likly will be shoved over by the next 'great' thing in programming.
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COBOL isn't exactly dead. Lots of companies have millions of lines of COBOL that hums along, waiting to be replaced as soon as the search committee settles on a relational data base and a GUI interface to it.
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The Java Platform consists of a wide array of technologies, each of which provides a distinct portion of the overall development or Java Runtime Environment. For example, end-users typically interface with the Java Virtual Machine and the standard set of class libraries. In addition, there are numerous ways for Java applications to be deployed, including being embedded into a web page. Lastly, developers who are creating applications for the platform use a set of development tools called the Java Development Kit.\n\nJava Virtual Machine\n\nThe heart of the Java Platform is the concept of a common "virtual" processor that executes Java bytecode programs. This bytecode is the same no matter what hardware or operating system the program is running under. The Java Platform provides a just-in-time (JIT) compiler within the Java Virtual Machine, or JVM, which handles execution of Java. The JIT compiler translates the Java bytecode into native processor instructions at run-time and caches the native code in memory during execution.\n\nThe use of bytecode as an intermediate language permits the same application to be run on any platform that has a virtual machine available. The use of a JIT compiler means that Java applications, after a short delay during loading and once they have "warmed up" by being all or mostly JIT-compiled, tend to run about as fast as native programs. Since JRE version 1.2, Sun's JVM implementation has included a just-in-time compiler instead of an interpreter.
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Yes, now a days cobol is very popular language for mainframe applications. Mainframe applications are mainly used in bank, Railways etc.. So dont think it is old. Most  of the online transactions are takes place with the help of mainframe.
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- compiled language -> C, C++, Java \n- low-level language  ->  assembly, machine, x86\n- source code   ->  .php, .py, .pl, .txt, .c, .java (those are extensions)\n- interpreted language -> - perl, php, python, visual basic\n- algorithm ->  flowchart, recipe\n- compiled binary language -> - .exe, .class, .pyc, .com\n- high level languages -> - C/C++, java, php, python, perl, visual basic\n\nAbout compiled languages: java is more often interpreted but can be compiled too\n\nAbout interpreted language -> I would guess this is the answer, I don't really know about all of them, VB is doubful in my mind\n\nAbout low-level language : neither machine or x86 are, but x86 machine-code would.
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During the 60s, while computers were still in an early stage of development, many new programming languages appeared. Among them, ALGOL 60, was developed as an alternative to FORTRAN but taking from it some concepts of structured programming which would later inspire most procedural languages, such as CPL and its succesors (like C++). ALGOL 68 also influenced directly in the development of data types in C. Nevertheless ALGOL was an unspecific language and its abstraction made it little practical to solve most commercial tasks.\n\nIn 1963 the CPL (Combined Programming language) appeared with the idea of being more specific for concrete programming tasks of that time than ALGOL or FORTRAN. Nevertheless this same specificity made it a big language and, therefore, difficult to learn and implement.\n\nIn 1967, Martin Richards developed the BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language), that signified a simplification of CPL but kept the most important features the language offered. Although it continued being an abstract and somewhat large language.\n\nIn 1970, Ken Thompson, immersed in the development of UNIX at Bell Labs, created the B language. It was a port of BCPL for a specific machine and system (DEC PDP-7 and UNIX), and was adapted to his particular taste and necessities. The final result was an even greater simplification of CPL, although dependent on the system. It had great limitations like it did not compile to executable code but threaded-code, which generates slower code in execution, and therefore was inadequate for the development of an operating system. Reason why from 1971, Denis Ritchie, from the Bell Labs team, began the development of a B compiler which, among other things, was able to generate executable code directly. This "New B", finally called C, introduced in addition, some other new concepts to the language like data types (char).\n\nIn 1973, Denis Ritchie, had developed the bases of C. The inclusion of types, its handling, as well as the improvement of arrays and pointers, along with later demonstrated capacity of portability without becoming a high-level language, contributed to the expansion of the C language. It was established with the book "The C Programming Language" by Brian Kernighan and Denis Ritchie, known as the White Book, and that served as de facto standard until the publication of formal ANSI standard (ANSI X3J11 committee) in 1989.\n\nIn 1980, Bjarne Stroustrup, from Bell labs, began the development of the C++ language, that would receive formally this name at the end of 1983, when its first manual was going to be published. In October 1985, the first commercial release of the language appeared as well as the first edition of the book "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup.\n\nDuring the 80s the C++ language was being refined until it became a language with its own personality. All that with very few losses of compatibility with the code with C, and wothout resigning to its most important characteristics. In fact, the ANSI standard for the C language published in 1989 took good part of the contributions of C++ to structured programming.\n\nFrom 1990 on, ANSI committee X3J16 began the development of a specific standard for C++. In the period elapsed until the publication of the standard in 1998, C++ lived a great expansion in its use and today is the preferred language to develop professional applications on all platforms.
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Yes.\nThis is one of selling point of java
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You have to learn some programing languages, like C++, Java
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Its of or relating to the computer language, prolog, which is commonly used for AI programs.  Its a very flexible language.
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No ethical programmer or programming student is going to help you cheat your way into a degree so that you can put 'Java' as a skill on a resume to get a job where you will then be incompetent in a basic language so your co-workers will have to carry you.  I did mine, now you do *YOURS*!
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* CORBA isn't tied to one language; Java RMI is \n  tied to Java.  The down side to this for CORBA, is \n  that developers also have to learn to write \n  interfaces in yet another language, IDL.\n\n* CORBA doesn't allow executable code to be sent \n  to the remote system; RMI does.\n\n* CORBA allows remote method invocations as well \n  as the exchange of primitive data types and \n  structures.  RMI allows full objects to be \n  passed and returned.\n\nSee the references below.
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Java is a better defined object-oriented language and has become very fine-tuned, with a great API with objects and methods that do about anything you want. It is also multiple platform, which means you can run programs on Windows, Linux, Mac, etc. \n\nHowever, the documentation on Java can be sketchy, and unless you are a genius, sometimes figuring out the API can be difficult. You have to be willing to spend some time figuring things out on your own. C# was basically created by Microsoft, and to give them credit, they document everything very well. But if you are not a fan of Microsoft, which many people aren't, Java is the better choice.
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Do you mean the framework, or the common runtime language?
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You need to master HTML, HTMX and COBOL
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Um...I think an Update of JAVA is needed. Dont you?\n\nwww.java.com
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presently java is the best. more opportunities. easy to get job. challenging programming.
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VB,C++ and JAVA are programming langauages, of which VB is an event driven programming language, depending on version you are using. Because VB.net is more object oriented. And C++ and JAVA are more object oriented programming languages.\nMicrosoft Access and Oracle are Database Management Systems they are used as a link between the Application program and Operating System.