• To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>,"Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <clbullar@i...>,"Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Subject: RE: Coding Makes You Dumb
• From: "Paul Sumner Downey" <Paul.Downey@w...>
• Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:17:26 -0000
• Cc: "XML Developer List" <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <0E36FD96D96FCA4AA8E8F2D199320E52010E530A@R...>

Joshua Allen wrote:

> Many of those "legends" came in previous versions of MSFT products, too.
> For example the "repository" built-in to VB5, the Rational plugins in
> VS6, and so on.  

COBOL was supposed to end of programmers, and does
anyone remember "The Last One" ?
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheLastOne

> Also note that BEA WebLogic Workshop is very promising too -- it
> makes some impressive demos of drag-drop connection of web services.

as is stringing Web services into a Workflow in the likes of Weblogic 
Integrator and Biztalk, but it's the non-functionals such as
security, performance, testing, packaging, configuration management, 
etc that still make computing difficult. One size fits all is still a 
long way off ..

--
Paul Sumner Downey
http://blog.whatfettle.com 

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