Maybe that what bit the Obama Care web site. What the user saw and used (the gui api) could have been easily written by students in a beginning web design class. The underlying apis were grossly underestimated and not understood by those in charge.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Interesting article: > > > > Shortened URL: > > http://goo.gl/mDHbFu > > > > Full URL: > > > http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/27/the-future-of-coding-is-here-and-threatens-to-wipe-out-everything-in-its-path/?ncid=tcdaily > > Seems like a worthwhile sentiment. > > Though, of course, it's also missing a few significant points. > > Like, APIs have always been that important. And, for most purposes, > most of them are irrelevant and ignorable. Though which ones are > irrelevant depends on what you are trying to accomplish. > > And *that* brings up a really important thing, which is that APIs by > themselves are worthless. It's what they let you access that matters. > So you need to combine development skills with insights into real > world problems (making stuff, for example, or growing food for another > example). > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
