See, I was going to agree with the headline until I read the article. I was thinking along the lines of a data warehouse version of Mathematica with distribute

See, I was going to agree with the headline until I read the article. I was thinking along the lines of a data warehouse version of Mathematica with distributed processing and web front end and RPC/REST and all of that. No, the author wants to "integrate a (not yet developed) visual programming language." On the JVM. What will this accomplish? Well, it would allow users to "create fairly sophisticated apps by dragging, dropping and plugging things together." But fear not, programmers: "Programmers wishing to make more sophisticated apps would have at least one real programming language with a DSL or DSL-like library for interacting with the system." Wonderful, another do-everything GUI app development environment where users can do more and programmers can do even more than that. Ugh. "Does anyone who understands the needs of the corporate market have some input?" Sure, make sure you check out the billions that have been spent on this very problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4GL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4GL