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Software will become pervasive during the next 30 years, and development of applications will evolve accordingly, according to one leading industry thinker.
IBM fellow Grady Booch yesterday predicted that IT systems will grow bigger as people come to rely on software in their day daily lives, through new forms such as wearable computers. This evolution in the computing landscape will mean hot- technology trends, such as XML and Service Oriented Architectures are left behind.
Looking ahead to 2031 during Rational's user conference in Dallas, Texas, Booch said: "Software will be larger than it is today."
Newer computing devices and runtimes means software will become increasingly distributed, and software development will evolve to tackle problems inherent in organizing development teams, designing systems and integrating distributed software.
New devices will produce new computer languages designed specifically for their systems, or domains.
"Java is not the last language," ...