[H-GEN] (fwd) The dumbing-down of programming

[Martin Pool]

http://www.salon1999.com/21st/feature/1998/05/13feature.html

by Ellen Ullman

Quite interesting...

    In the pretty, visual programming world, both the vendor and
    programmer can get lazy. The vendor doesn't have to work as hard at
    producing and committing itself to well-designed programming
    interfaces. And the programmer can stop thinking about the
    fundamentals of the system. We programmers can lay back and inherit
    the vendor's assumptions.

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