@GergelyOrosz: "Application development did not change much for 20 years, but now, a new wave is crashing in. Most computers in the fu…
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A tweet shares a 1982 quote by James Martin, predicting that application development will evolve with computers working without programmers, potentially facing resistance from programmers.
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“Application development did not change much for 20 years, but now, a new wave is crashing in. Most computers in the future must be put to work at least in part w/o programmers.
Not surprisingly, programmers will instinctively resist methods described in this book.“
- 1982, James Martin, in the book Application Development Without Programmers
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