[PaddyCorry]

Nice article. Good to see a positive Java piece.

I'm formerly a COBOL developer, now working with Java. Did anyone else think that his main argument for learning Java could also work for learning COBOL? (substitute COBOL for Java in the quote below)

<quote> It's not going to go away any time soon. There's too much momentum. There's no need to worry. Ever since the launch of Java I've heard that it's going to be gone or unusable tomorrow. History shows that just doesn't happen to popular programming languages.

If you learn Java now, you may still be using it 20 years from now. Or 30. </quote>

[rbanffy]

Java is the COBOL of the 21st century. It's every bit as elegant and exciting.