Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!hp0p+ From: hp0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hokkun Pang) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: sys & lang standardization? Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 08:45:15 GMT Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 14 I have browsed thru all net.comp.* bboards, this seems more appropriate. --- Will we ever get to the stage that operating system and programming language are well stablelized(am I dreaming?). It seems to me that every month or so, there's a new (or major upgrade to an existing) operating system or programming language. So much energy are wasted (can I say this?) in learning new features and rewiting old codes. Still an undergrad, I have used the following languages already: Ada, Assembly, Basic, C, Cobol, Comal, Forth, Fortran, ML, Lisp, ML, Pascal, Prolog, Scheme. And all of them are still widely used. How many more do I need to learn? Do we know enough to know which direction(s) to go yet? How long do we need to wait? PS, don't flame me, I'm just an undergrad.