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I think everything you say is true except the jab at java, which is also true, but not all the truth... Besides, during the 90s the idea seemed to be that tha

• csixty4 10y ago
  > during the 90s the idea seemed to be that that the next step after the outsourcing was actually no programmers at all Lest someone think this is an exaggeration, no, this was literally the conversation at the highest levels of some companies. A relative told me to reconsider going after a comp sci degree in 1995 because within ten years the computers would be programming themselves. There were presentations at their workplace about it. My first "real" job was programming customizations hacked on top of a 4gl tool - injecting JavaScript into pages through an improperly sanitized <label> widget! After the whole application was rewritten in the 4gl tool, it never lived up to its promise.
  • kpil 10y ago
    Fred Brooks where spot on in his thoughs regarding essential (as in inherent) complexity. I think that BPEL thankfully died just a couple of years ago, but not thanks to some globally aquired insight but rather because a new batch of developers isn't quite there yet so they are busy learning and reinventing basic stuff, but now at 'internet scale'