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Re: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail

From Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail
Date 2019-05-31 20:16 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>> On 31/05/2019 9:43 pm, Rich wrote:
>>> https://architectofworlds.com/blog/why-codeless-software-doomed-fai
>>> l/
>> 
>> Perhaps some of the older readers here remember "The Last One" and the 
>> hype surrounding it, which the computing press swallowed hook line and 
>> sinker.
> 
> As the article did mention, this comes up periodically.  I remember 
> articles in Byte in the 80's espousing how this was going to 
> 'revolutionize' things.
> 
> And there was one company in the electronics/circuit design arena that 
> had a commerical product in the early 90's that had this kind of 
> "visual programming" that had some success in their niche.  But it had 
> that success only because of the narrow focus (electrical circuits and 
> later some amount of digital signal processing).
> 
> But the closest we have really gotten to "non-programmer business person 
> writes a program" is the spreadsheet.
> 
Even older: 4th generation languages were supposed to let business
people write their own software (as was COBOL).

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[Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-31 11:43 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-05-31 22:14 +1000
    Re: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-31 14:41 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-05-31 20:16 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-06-02 00:22 +0100
        Re: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-06-02 11:58 +0100
    Re: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-05-31 18:08 +0100
      Re: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-06-01 12:47 +1000
        Driverless cars (Was: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-06-01 20:29 +0000
          Re: Driverless cars (Was: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail) RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-06-02 16:30 +0000
            Re: Driverless cars (Was: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-06-02 23:17 +0000
              Re: Driverless cars (Was: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail) Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2019-06-04 00:02 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars (Was: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail) Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-06-04 18:43 +0100
                Re: Driverless cars (Was: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is   Doomed to Fail) Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2019-06-04 21:55 +0100
                Re: Driverless cars not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-06-04 22:57 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-05 11:53 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-06-05 15:52 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2019-06-05 16:28 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-06-05 23:10 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-06-05 23:47 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2019-06-05 20:06 -0700
                Re: Driverless cars Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-06-06 08:55 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2019-06-06 12:39 +0100
                Re: Driverless cars Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-06 16:51 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2019-06-06 20:35 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2019-06-06 23:39 +0200
                Re: Driverless cars Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-07 08:17 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-06-07 09:39 +0100
                Re: Driverless cars Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-06-07 00:26 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-07 18:08 -0400
                Re: Driverless cars not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-06-07 23:50 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2019-06-06 13:51 -0700
                Re: Driverless cars Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2019-06-06 23:39 +0200
                Re: Driverless cars Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-06-06 21:50 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2019-06-05 16:28 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-06-05 16:58 -0300
                Re: Driverless cars Stephen Hall <s__hall@gmail.com> - 2019-06-08 19:17 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-09 09:49 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Why Codeless Software is Doomed to Fail Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-06-02 00:14 +0100

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