Will the future be programmer-free?

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/20/47NF-codeless-dev_1.html

by ccraigIW • 18 years ago

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bdfh42• 18 years ago

Sounds like every "report writer" or "does everything you want as long as you don't want to do much" 4GL I've ever come across to me.

I loved two quotes:

"Anyone who is comfortable writing macros or sophisticated Excel spreadsheets has what it takes to create apps with Coghead" - so basically programmers then.

"A person needs a basic understanding of relational databases" - but in my experience most otherwise excellent programmers lack any detectable understanding of relational databases.

mechanical_fish• 18 years ago

It's an interesting sociological phenomenon: People who sit there, programming, right in front of you, yet all the while insisting that they aren't programmers and that what they're doing is certainly not programming.

I suspect that, in the long term, programming will be like writing. A majority of people are able to do it at some level, but they never think of themselves as "writers". A sizeable number of people are employed as pro writers and label themselves as such, and there are a decent number of superstar writers who are highly paid and at least moderately famous.

Incidentally, I agree with you that this article is yet another entry in that unkillable genre: the sales pitch for a 4GL silver bullet. People have been writing these for at least two or three decades.

t0pj• 18 years ago

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Thank you, Infoworld.

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Will the future be programmer-free?

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