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    What's next?

    What technologies are going to make today's skills redundant? Something related to mobile or cloud computing, web services, or further moves in to bolt-connecting or use of packages/templates rather than technical know-how of actually creating bolts. Or are some recent revolutions (e.g. OOP/OOA) pretty much it with not much scope for a major revolution. What about object oriented Db's?

    #2
    p.s. it will be regarded as cheating if you reply to this thread in 10 years time, interesting though it will be to hear from you.

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      #3
      learning-replicating-self-aware-neural-networks-living-in-the-sky

      they will do all your work

      DOOMED!!!
      "Condoms should come with a free pack of earplugs."

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        #4
        Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
        p.s. it will be regarded as cheating if you reply to this thread in 10 years time, interesting though it will be to hear from you.
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        My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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          #5
          I couldn't care less.

          As long as my gravy train lasts another few years.

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            #6
            Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
            I couldn't care less.

            As long as my gravy train lasts another few years.
            Yeah, in just another few years you'll reach the end of the rainbow...

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              #7
              Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
              Yeah, in just another few years you'll reach the end of the rainbow...
              In a few years I'll be wealthy enough not to worry about it.

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                #8
                Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                In a few years I'll be wealthy enough not to worry about it.
                Wealthy enough for what? To buy a bigger house, yacht or (smaller) wife?

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                  #9
                  Don't see too much on the horizon apart from more hype like ESBs and SOA and the link, most of which is about vendors making £££ (or $$$).

                  One thing I would like to see is a language with first class support for concurrency. It's a bit of an afterthought in Java and C#, and even a non-thought in other languages.
                  Cats are evil.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by swamp View Post
                    One thing I would like to see is a language with first class support for concurrency.
                    You'll have to go back 25 years, I'm afraid, not forward 10. Real programming on real hardware with real operating systems started to die when the PC was born.

                    There's a fading ghost part of my brain that knows all about genuine multi-processor, multi-threaded programming and file systems that are designed for it.
                    My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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