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"... Shouldn't a good business analyst be able to do this? Given a business with no information system, shouldn't policy be consistent anyway? ..." 4GL's tried
by bootload 18y ago
"... Shouldn't a good business analyst be able to do this? Given a business with no information system, shouldn't policy be consistent anyway? ..."
4GL's tried to solve this problem. Didn't work. I suspect this approach is always at best a weak solution to a hard problem, not because 'business analysts' aren't smart enough but the way they perceive programming logic with computers is incompatible ~ http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/ http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/
- alexandros 18y agoJust because it has not worked until now, does not mean we stop trying. Unless there is proof of impossibility, we should try new attacks. In fact, languages have been getting more and more high level, so we are getting there, albeit slowly. If 4GLs, Case and MDA jumped the gun, that is another story entirely.
- bootload 18y ago"... Just because it [BA's replace programmers - my addition] has not worked until now, does not mean we stop trying. Unless there is proof of impossibility, we should try new attacks ..." Alexandros I'm in agreement with you because there are many instances of inventions where they displace on-mass specialised knowledge or skill. The tools & understanding we have to tackle the problem are too crude.