On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:03:46 -0400, Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The future of what we do will not be hand coding applications. It's the same > as driving a car as opposed to the old horse and buggy. The future will be > application design/building tools like Iron Speed for ASP.NET, and CFM Maker > for CF.
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!) > Especially ASP.NET....that code is pure insanity! Amen to that! > This software will eventually get to the point where we'll be designing and > building all our apps like you build a db with access. Small one-off apps built by small mom'n'pop organizations maybe, but that's not how enterprises build their databases... -- Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/ Team Fusebox -- http://www.fusebox.org/ Breeze Me! -- http://www.corfield.org/breezeme "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187215 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=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
