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0 pointsfweimer12d ago0 comments

COBOL certainly had a lasting impact, but only for some application domains. The rest didn't seem to be particularly successful or impactful. Maybe RAD if you consider office application macros and end user report generation in it. (Spreadsheets extended programming to non-programmers and had a long-lasting impact, but I wouldn't call them RAD.)

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mech42211d ago

Thats sorta the point... at one time or another, those were all projected to be 'the end of programming as we know it'...

Hell, COBOL's origins was in IBM wanting to make programming an 'entry level' occupation.

Oddly enough, spreadsheets had a huge impact (and still run a lot of companies behind the scenes :-P ) But I can't remember anyone claiming they would 'end programming' ?

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mech42211d ago

Thats sorta the point... at one time or another, those were all projected to be 'the end of programming as we know it'...

Hell, COBOL's origins was in IBM wanting to make programming an 'entry level' occupation.

Oddly enough, spreadsheets had a huge impact (and still run a lot of companies behind the scenes :-P ) But I can't remember anyone claiming they would 'end programming' ?

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