LR>Hi, Carey.  C++ a fad???  :) Or, is Java the fad??  In fact, can Java 
really
Both.
LR>"write it once and run anywhere"?
With limitations.  Some can be significant, it depends on the situation.
(Sort of like with the old UCSD Pascal.  It was portable just like Java,
but you couldn't really do anything serious with it, and it was very
slow. Java is NOT a new idea. They just repacked it with a new label and
is being sold to a lot of people who don't know any better.)
LR>Will C++ become the Cobol of yesteryear?
Hopefully.  Or better yet, like Forth, Lisp, etc.
LR>For that matter what will happen to all those business programs written in
LR>C/C++ since the early 1980's.  And what will happen to Oracle/Sybase ... 
and
LR>on and on.
The programming language is fairly irrelevant.  It's more important
about the specs the program was written to, and all the old databases.
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