Yeah, I've been in this game for 40+ years. Fads come and go. When I started 4GLs were going to take over everything. 10 years later it was SDDs and SDSs, then it was UML and it goes on to what's mentioned in the article.
Perhaps it is the triumph of hope over experience, perhaps those new in the field prefer to use the new tools rather than understand how the old ones work.
I think the quality of software has deteriorated, but then complexity has also gone up. One never writes anything from scratch these days, there's a tower of libraries underneath now.
Perhaps it is the triumph of hope over experience, perhaps those new in the field prefer to use the new tools rather than understand how the old ones work.
I think the quality of software has deteriorated, but then complexity has also gone up. One never writes anything from scratch these days, there's a tower of libraries underneath now.