From: eugen@leitl.org
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 04:36:53 MST
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Kai Becker wrote:
> For me, no software technology in the foreseeable future will be able
> to achieve a quantum-leap in software production, because the
> limitations for productivity in this field are closely related to the
> limitations of our brains to deal with complex, interdependend
> systems.
It is interesting that so many software developers have apparently a blind
spot in the area. And we're not even talking about juggling thousands of
concurrent threads of control here.
I also fail to see a real breakthrough anytime soon. Pattern-driven code
generation is about as good as it gets for gurus. We will be able to have
automatic code generation eventually, which generates codes to specs or in
interactive sessions (reward/punishment or simon says sessions), but this
is something clearly quite far removed from what we currently call code.
Getting there is a nontrivial process, given that the industry as a whole
is oblivous that there is a problem.
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