Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:40:42 -0000, tim <TimJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ruby is generating fierce interest in Europe, even more than elsewhere.


So too is GROOVY

There is an argument that these languages are so productive that rewriting
things is a viable approach. I was at a Ruby User group meeting yesterday
and one of the guys had a web forms package. One particular piece of code
was all of 60 lines of code. He apologised for this and solicited
suggestions as to how it could be done better.

I expect each generation of programming tools to be less dominant than
the previous, as our whole concept of "programming" moves closer and
closer to "asking".

Meanwhile I have seen greater percentages of IT staff concerned with
managing the database for newer reasons than what I started of with -
security, privacy, figuring out how to combine dissimilar data
warehouses in a meaningful way,
.