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[Ladyhawk]

A friend of mine told me that he reckoned in 10 years time there won't be a need for programmers because there will be templates that any joe bloggs can use to create the application that they want.

Do other people think this?

Ladyhawk.
** ASP/VB/Java Programmer **

 

[CajunCenturion]

To a degree I think there is some truth in that assessment. We have commoditized simple programming in a lot of ways. However, there will still be complex problems and unique challenges that cannot be solved using a canned template. That's where the professionally trained software engineers will earn their pay, in the design and architecture of software solutions that do not fit any pre-defined templates.

Secondly, somebody will be needed to write and maintain the templates.

Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein

 

[AIXSPadmin]

As with Cajun, I do agree that this statement has some basis. Will all programmers be gone, certainly not, however, I would envision a great number of programmers, for example, who are employed by business now doing business logic programming with java for web development accessing backend databases to be among those whose jobs will be gone.

A few years ago, I remember seeing a couple of developement RADs that allowed one to develop a complete application without any coding at all (though I don't remember the names of them.) However, of course they never caught on, and it was said that you could write the entire app in VB faster than it took to use the RAD black boxes to do it.

But give it time, as with all technology it will mature and become a viable and easily-used environment, and if business sees that it is saving or can save them money, they will adopt it.

 

[svanels]

Design a complete application without coding? That will seperate the men from from the boys. In theory you can do that. Everybody can make a database browser without any coding, but is the world waiting only on that? Maybe you have heard of delphi, it comes pretty close to RAD, but still the the programming concepts are valid. The plain question if condition then dot_his, else do_that the programmer has to resolve.

Steven van Els
SAvanEls@cq-link.sr

 

[dwarfthrower]

Ja, but who will write these templates and the compilers and back-end processes that turn templates filled in by Joe Gumby into applications.

There will always be a need for programmers... maybe what your friend means is that there will be less demand for 'programmers' that really aren't.