I was thinking the same thing about application building systems. As far as the market fragmenting into those levels, heck they have seemed to be in those levels for years at least in my exeperiences.
-- Aaron Rouse http://www.happyhacker.com/ On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 11:00:16 -0800, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I very much doubt it. Such "4GL" application building systems have > been around for decades and they haven't killed the hand-coder yet. > Why? Because they don't do 100% of the job. They are, by nature, > generic and try to cater for every developer and every application. I > was use visual design / code generating systems fifteen years ago and, > whilst they've gotten better over the years, they've never covered the > full software liifecycle and never will, in my opinion. > > Personally I think it's more likely that the market will fragment into > architects, designers and managers on one side and outsourced coders > on the other. (Hey, if we're going to get controversial, let's talk > about outsourcing!) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - CFDynamics http://www.cfdynamics.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187217 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
