Yeah, and ColdFusion was never going away, either. VRML was the wave of the future and Flash will revolutionize the web. There are very few things that will never go away:

But, we all know that COBOL will make a come back ;).

I chose the computer science field simply for the fact that there is always something new to learn. I have found it easy to move from one language to the next as long as you adapt your mindset. Anyone who argues whether one language is better than another and how long it will be around needs to approach the subject with an open mind (which I am very pleased to find Muntant doing). Each language has a specific job, even field, it is good for. If I find myself in doubt, I learn both :).