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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: Conditional Compilation
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> For example, I heard high up people in the DoD in charge of
> information processing systems seriously claim that no one
> would do any more programming any more, we would simply
> put our "business models" into the 4GL tool and that would
> be it :-)

Yeah, heard a lot of that in the trade media 10 years ago.

Meanwhile, I worked for a PHB who complained that our reports showed
that the "pounds ordered" and "pounds shipped" last month didn't match,
so their must be a bug in our programs.  Proving once and for all that
even if 4GLs, 5GLs, 9GLs, or whatever, are eventually operable by PHBs,
they'll *still* need programmers as an interface between the Management
Zone and reality.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas