Web, Object technologies and their linkage is still uncertain and there may be many changes but there are "enough" capabilities in place to build very general (essentially all?) applications
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COM v. CORBA; role of Java, JavaScript uncertain
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Field characterized by rapidly evolving standards and mechanisms to achieve rapid consensus
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Fortran77 --> Fortran90 --> HPF --> Fortran2000 -- 23 years
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VRML idea (1994) --> VRML1 deployed (95) --> VRML2 deployed (early 97) -- 2.3 years
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VRML2 with 3D datastructures and Java(Script) enabled methods is as sophisticated as Fortran1
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Java was also deployed very fast and now has much better learning resources than any other language -- Java Tools are better than Fortran and rapidly overtaking C++
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