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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Conditional Compilation
Date: 2000/09/24
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In article <39C80309.F4C80A22@mail.utexas.edu>,
  "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 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.

That's precisely what surprised me, the rest of the IS world
went through this illusion a decade ago, and has long since
recognized the reality of the situation :-)


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