sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) (03/28/89)
In article <2549@ssc-vax.UUCP>, dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) asks the BIG QUESTION: > I firmly believe, however, that within the next 5 years, > that software engineers should have experience with Object Oriented > Programming > (OOP) languages, in order to keep abreast with current technology. > Anyway, what I'm driving at is this: What will be next? What is now > under development that will make a significant impact on the world of > software development. What's the next X Windows? What's the next > concept in programming languages (beyond OOP)? > Well, how about it? What's next? > I think that the next concept beyond OOP will be Parallel Object Oriented Programming, or POOP. However it won't last long. It's EDitor, known as POOPED will be much to fatiguing to work in and programmers will rebel and start using the new free form language called Compiled Random Access Programming (CRAP). ;-) -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps ______________| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well. -- G. Bell