Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software

Re:Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software by icky on Friday February 29, 2008 @11:55AM (#126165)

Flawed premise. Software and UIs designed by "regular users" (unless they're professional designers, for the UI part) tends to suck far harder than almost anything cooked up by programmers.

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Re:Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software by henning on Friday February 29, 2008 @12:35PM (#126199)

Furthermore, there's no getting around the fact that computers are precise machines with no real ability to divine what you mean.

Even in declarative programming where nearly all the accidental complexity is removed, there's still the actual logic to implement, which in large quantities still requires tons of work by diligent, skilled programmers.

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Re:Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software by goodgoblin on Friday February 29, 2008 @12:07PM (#126178)

Good point - software is hard because you have to take into account the logical ramifications of each decision you make. Programmers are good at this - business users are not.

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Re:Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software by apathy on Friday February 29, 2008 @03:37PM (#126298)

> Programmers are good at this - business users are not.

It might be more accurate to say that programmers are less bad at this than business users (and other less analytically minded individuals).

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Re:Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software by r7000 on Friday February 29, 2008 @01:08PM (#126211)

MS Access has a lot to answer for. How can you tell your boss that no he really has not done "most of the work" already?

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