On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:19:06PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: >On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:51:36PM +0000, Roger Burton West wrote: >> I've seen systems claiming to let you build programs out of >> prefabricated components for at least twenty years, and the recent ones >> don't seem to be any better than the originals... >Delphi, .NET, C#
Yes. Quite. All of these still need skilled programmers (that being the need that all such systems claim to work towards eliminating), and they all get horribly messy when you try to write non-trivial programs. Roger -- He's a scrappy native American farmboy looking for a cure to the poison coursing through his veins. She's a brilliant streetsmart hooker living on borrowed time. They fight crime!
