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this is rapid development all over again, it funny how the pendulum go as years pass.
by imachine1980_ 2y ago
this is rapid development all over again, it funny how the pendulum go as years pass.
- tomcam 2y agoI'm thinking of bringing back Basic but with a twist. Hear me out. You'd have a forms package built in. It would be a visual approach for programming business apps. Haven't come up with a clever name for it yet.
- elteto 2y agoWhat about "Visual <something>"? Since, you know, it's visual. This idea sounds promising. Who knows... you might even get one of the tech giants interested! Some of them have a lot of business customers that could use something like this.
- tomcam 2y agoStrong! I feel like we both see the future
- stult 2y agoIf only we could bundle it with the world's most commonly used tabular data tool, it could run the entire world
- elteto 2y agoDon't you think that would be going too far? I worry what unholy creations people might come up with... A tabular data tool with a full development environment might just be too much power concentrated in a single application.
- SmellTheGlove 2y agoNah people will just use it to run football pools and fantasy baseball leagues. It won't be a serious thing.
- russfink 2y agoThe dialog of this thread could fill out three panels of an XKCD comic quite nicely.
- 1024core 2y agoI like your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.