Donald Ferguson says end-user programming is next big thing. Is it?

Posted by Joris Meys on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Joris Meys
Published on 2011-01-02T22:03:49Z Indexed on 2011/01/02 22:57 UTC
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You can guess how I came to ask this question...

Anyway : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11944966

Donald Ferguson claiming that his websphere was his biggest disaster and proclaiming that end-user programming will be the way forward. This genuinely spurs the question : what with current programming languages.

Honestly, I don't think that end-user programming will go much beyond a rather rigid template where you can build some apps around. If you see how many people actually manage to understand the basic functionality of functions in EXCEL... Plus, I fail to see how complex and performant systems can be built in such an end-user programming language ( Visual Basic, anyone?) Nice to play around with, but for many applications they're just not the thing.

So no worries for the old languages if you ask me. What's your ideas?

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