[dba-VB] Recent Discussion from MS on VB.Net and C# in VS 2010

> In essence, AI is self programmable (once it's built)

And  who  here remebers The Last One (TLO) back in the 80's ?  Never program
again, just  answer prompts and it  would create the program for you.  Huh,
it was even supposed to run on the Osborne.

Max
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:27 PM
To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Recent Discussion from MS on VB.Net and C# in VS 2010

Thanks for the article!  That was a great read.

But Shamil, NEVER say never.  To begin with, the authors statement said it
wouldn't happen in 10 year, and it didn't.  He said that in '86, and it
certainly didn't happen by '96.  It's now almost 15 years after that mark.
To begin with, many tasks which would have required a programmer, have
gotten to a point where a user can point and click for what they want.
Next, you are completely ignoring any progress made with AI.  In essence, AI
is self programmable (once it's built).  You never know what was around the
corner.  My main point, however, is that a lot of what I've seen people like
our list members do, is being slowly replaced by newer technology.

There is a curve up, stating it'll never reach a certain point is not a
mathematical certainty.

Drew

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[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
Salakhetdinov
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:41 PM
To: 'Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.'
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Recent Discussion from MS on VB.Net and C# in VS 2010

<<<
But the move to making point and click
development tools is not too far
in the distant future.
>>>
No, Drew, no way (if by the above statement you mean mainstream professional
software development):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet 

Software development tools do evolve but the complexity of the tasks to be
solved by the modern software does evolve quicker - that promise to be never
ending "hunting one own tail story" - the more advanced development tools we
get the more complicated programming tasks we will have to solve...

Thank you.

--Shamil {^;^}
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