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Re:The Programming Steamroller Waits For No One (2013) by danieldk on Sunday February 09, 2014 @04:27AM (#7204970)
I agree. The core fundamental concepts and abstractions are relatively stable (most innovation seems to be happening in the Haskell/FP camp), as well as the programming languages being used. Even the newer widely-used languages (Javascript, Python, etc.) are old by now.

What changes are lot are the actual frameworks and libraries. E.g., while Java is twenty years old now, Hadoop, JAX-RS, Hibernate, etc. did not exist then. And while Java will probably still be in wide use in twenty years, those libraries and frameworks will have been replaced except in legacy code.

I think the only 'platform' that has been stable for ever is UNIX. People are still using libc, POSIX (ok, SUS), etc.

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