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Great article, but it leaves me with one question : what's the difference between good code generating systems (the ones mentionned, that you'd use to build cri
by bsaul 9y ago
Great article, but it leaves me with one question : what's the difference between good code generating systems (the ones mentionned, that you'd use to build critical system), and the horrors that we saw back in the time with wysiwig HTML editors such as dreamweaver ( to the point where nobody today would dare to write an html website with something other than a text editor) ?
The second problem seems a lot easier to me, and yet it is where wysiwyg failed spectacularly.
- shalabhc 9y ago> good code generating systems To discuss a different perspective - why have text as an intermediate representation at all? To elaborate - if you look at something like Smalltalk, you modify the 'running program' directly.
- hwayne 9y agoLabVIEW is the future
- tytytytytytytyt 9y agoAny decade now...
- Animats 9y agoWhat went wrong with Visual Basic? (HTML/CSS/Javascript was botched so badly that Dreamweaver-type editors no longer work. This is embarrassing.)
- david927 9y agoWhat went wrong with Visual Basic? The language was simple enough for beginners but not sophisticated enough to scale for large projects. All too often you would have a project that started in VB as a proof of concept which then extended to become the actual system, and then as that system grew it started to collapse under its own weight. The conversion to the CLR fixed a lot of that, but now it isn't really for beginners anymore. HTML/CSS/Javascript was botched so badly That combination is atrocious out-of-the-box. There was no "botching" it, but rather (again) scaling to larger problems showed that the foundation was always made of sand.
- justherefortart 9y agoVisual Basic was fantastic for kicking out a UI. If you needed anything larger, all you had to do was build DLLs and reference them. So easy front end and easy back end. The best of both worlds.
- rurban 9y agoVisual Basic was also fantastic to kick out multithreading server code. The problem was always libraries and lack of language reflection.
- peoplewindow 9y agoDreamweaver was actually famous at the time for creating clean and readable HTML. It's FrontPage you're thinking of.