C++ has an air of COBOL of it.

I recently heard from a person that C++ was doomed in the same way as COBOL. The exact word where "C++ has a COBOL warning". I'm stunned... Any language that is going to share the faith of COBOL it is Java. If you look at what is happening out there with a metric of job ads you'll see it. Big corporations run their business systems with Java and banks love Java. They used to love COBOL. It is evident in their job ads. Now that Oracle has bought Sun and Java with it. See what happened here. An enterprise company bought the rights to Java. Java might not be all about the enterprise and business right now. But we could all see where this is headed can't we.

Now I'm not angry at the person that dropped the remark on my favorite programming language. He seems to be a genuinely nice guy who voiced his opinion. Opinions are personal and I'm not to deny them. But lets get some facts straight.

If you are reading this on any web browser you are dependent on C++ technology. All popular browsers out there are written in C++. If you play any type of computer/video game odds are that it is coded in C++. If you use Adobe products yet again you use C++ software. The Java Virtual Machine is made with C++.

Notice the pattern in the last paragraph. If you are an enduser consumer of software you are using C++ software. It has been like that for a long time and will be the nearest future.