On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 18:49:00 +0000, Joakim wrote: > On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 21:17:26 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: >> On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 18:27:51 UTC, Joakim wrote: >>>> would suffice. >>> >>> When you said "I think rodent-based UIs will go the way of the >>> dinosaur," you seemed to be talking about more than just programmers. >>> >>> >> >> I'm still waiting for The Last One (from Feb 1981) to reach fruition: >> >> http://www.tebbo.com/presshere/html/wf8104.htm >> >> http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebbutt/2007/07/the-last-one-pe.html >> >> Once finished, there will be no more need to write any programs. > > Heh, that article is pretty funny. :) In the comments for the second > link, the lead programmer supposedly said, "For me TLO remains the 1st > ever programming wizard. Wrongly advertised and promoted, but > inherentlyt a 'good idea'." Considering how widespread wizards are in > Windows these days, the idea has certainly done well. > > I do think that that concept of non-technical users providing > constraints and answering questions is the future of building software, > it just can't be built by one isolated guy. The configuration and glue > code can be auto-generated, but there will likely always need to be core > libraries written in a programming language by programmers. But the > same automation that has put most travel agents out of work will one day > be applied to most programmers too.
that would be a big day!
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