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Yeah, it was a 4GL. Roughly since the 1950s, every ten years or so someone has come along with “this will allow unskilled people to write programs, and destroy
by rsynnott 1y ago
Yeah, it was a 4GL. Roughly since the 1950s, every ten years or so someone has come along with “this will allow unskilled people to write programs, and destroy those awful programmers forever” (_COBOL_ was originally basically marketed as this!) SQL is by _far_ the most successful thing to actually come out of this recurrent trend, in that it is actually useful, and unskilled people can actually use it to an extent. Most of the rest of it, 4GLs and 5GLs and drag and drop programming and no-code and… was just kinda useless; at most it made for a good demo, but attempts to make actual workable maintainable software with it broke down fast.
- antonvs 1y agoIt's interesting that there's been that constant drumbeat - for at least about half a century at this point - about eliminating software developers, yet somehow we don't get the same messaging about eliminating, say, civil engineers.
- Disposal8433 1y ago> eliminating software developers I must write a "me too" here because I have seen this a lot recently on various sites. Whether it comes from managers or non-coders (I guess astrosurfing managers), it's always about those awful developers gate-keeping software development with their complicated compiled languages. I know it's all fake but it's exhausting, and it's nice to see it acknowledged here on HN.
- antonvs 1y agoIllegitimi non carborundum
- rsynnott 1y agoDon’t give them ideas. Whatever about vibe-coding, we really, really do not want vibe-railways.