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As more vendors come to market with low-code platforms, it can be tempting to dismiss these as “dumbed down” or amateur app development. It can also mean fixup work for the pros as well
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Interesting: the author is an "evangelist" for FileMaker ... what ? I thought the last running version of FileMaker was on display in the software fossil section of the Smithsonian. Okay, that's too harsh; I just haven't orbited the Cult of Mac in too many years to have a clue.Quote: Maybe your customer only needs an app for a year, or maybe just a few months. Reading this, the phrase "scratch-and-sniff" came to me mind, although it does resonate (feebly) with one of the golden rules of software development: "make sure your code creates continuous compensation over time ... for you, the programmer."
More seriously, the article doesn't discuss one single real-world example of what it calls "low-code/no code." I'm sure there are some.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Unless I'm missing something aren't these "low-code/no-code" platforms just 4GL platforms? Why bother renaming them when they've been around since the 80s.
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Because everyone "knows" 4GL failed, so you need to give it a new label to sell?
TTFN - Kent
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I know 5GL tripped on a doorstep, crashed into a table, had a lamp fall on its head, and got summarily executed, but I was actually unaware that 4GL suffered the same fate. I occasionally see 4GL-ish projects pop up here and there and figured it had found its niche. A couple months ago I even saw a posting here in the states for a developer familiar with 4GL languages to build some app.
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SQL is a pretty successful 4GL language I'd say.
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Yeah, and I'd say Excel+VBA/VB.NET/VSTO/C#-interop was/is, too.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Very true. Giving it more thought I suppose 4GL did find its niche in "data languages" like query and report languages.
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Other examples would be Stata, Simulink and Wolfram.
I believe niche or specialized is the word here. I don't think 4GL will ever have a breakthrough among generic use.
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Only because 4GL was redefined. Originally, 4GL was "programming just like Legos!" (AI is also constantly doing the redefinition thing.)
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I've never heard SQL described as a 4GL.
The Wikipedia article provides (as usual) a good overview of different things considered 4GL.
Fourth-generation programming language - Wikipedia[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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And SQL is in the list of examples if you follow your own link.
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Fair enough, my bad.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The latest release from the division’s AI experiments series is a new web app that lets you collaborate with a neural network to draw doodles of everyday objects. It still looks like a poorly drawn circle and a non-straight line
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A Pennsylvania judge has sentenced Adam Flanagan, 42, of Bala Cynwyd, PA to one year and one day in prison for hacking and damaging the IT networks of several water utility providers across the US East Coast. Is it just me, or does there seem to be a lot of this going around?
Yeah, I know. It was done in 2014, but there seem to be a lot of news about these kind of hacks recently.
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Maybe they are trying to infer fear in possible hackers after the big leak of Windows sources
Just as: Ok... We maybe have no idea, but if you do anything you will pay for it anyways.
Was it in the states that if you leave your door unlocked, then a stranger is not "doing" trespass? Why is in other way with software? If vendors leave the doors opened, is not the same?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Researchers have built an electrocaloric refrigerator the size of a beverage coaster that can generate a temperature difference of about 2 K between the hot and cold ends of the device. Because 'electrocaloric' is my new favourite word
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We need stuff like this.
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Cool. Literally.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Cool. Literally.
On the other end it is rather hot!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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The only limitation is that it kills everything within a 10 mile radius.
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New research builds on the pioneering use of machine learning algorithms with brain imaging technology to "mind read." Beware of the next job interview where they want you to sit in an fMRI machine
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The Visual Studio debugger is a magical beast that can save you loads of time while finding and fixing issues in your application. It is chock-full of tools that can make debugging easier… if you know they exist, and where to find them! Just in case you're lesser knowing
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VS 2017, the lesser known Visual Studio.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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