On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:19:06 -0800, Ravi Teja wrote: > http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~maratb/readings/NoSilverBullet.html
What does this have to do with anything I wrote? I didn't ask for a silver bullet that will solve any programming problem imaginable. I didn't even ask for a general procedure or methodology that will make programming projects either to manage. I'm not stupid -- I understand that there is no magic bullet that will solve every problem. As programming tools and methodologies get better at handling hard problems, we look at even harder problems. That's not what I'm talking about. But in 1988 the technology existed to create simple GUI applications with virtually no programming needed. (Yes, they were simple. Simple is not necessarily a bad thing.) Today, it seems to me that there is no technology available to allow non-programmers to create simple GUI applications: the state of technology, which has made progress in so many ways, has actually gone backwards in this regard. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list