Dans TheEconomist de cette semaine, il y a un panorama présentant l'état actuel de l'informatique, dont la principale bataille actuelle est C# contre Java.
Ca évoque brièvement UML, XML et ça conclut sur l'avenir de l'Internet, RDF, et le retour en grâce de l'intelligence artificielle.
En bonus, pour rire, la blague éternelle sur HelloWorld au long d'une carrière.
Pas une ligne sur Linux, mais la conclusion parle d'
open source:
Even though Lisp and Prolog may not be the shape of things to come, a programming language that incorporates concepts from artificial intelligence will no doubt appear when the time is ripe?and leave the likes of Java and C# by the wayside.
How fast could all this happen? Although the .NET platform required a massive effort on the part of Microsoft, the language C# was developed by a team of four researchers in a mere two years, with a similar-sized effort producing the compiler. It is thus within the realms of a small start-up's aspirations to develop the Java language for the next generation of the web, and to rely on open-source methods to generate the necessary environment. As the clash between C# and Java shows, there is a huge amount at stake in setting the trend for programming languages. Expect a whole alphabet soup of new languages within the next decade. (©The Economist,2001)
