IT - Too easy these days.

[DimPrawn]

In the old days, to get anything to work you had to resort to low level tulip like C and assembler, now you just open your favourite design surface and drag and drop coloured shapes and lines, click deploy and carry on posting on CUK.

If it gets any easier I'm not sure I'm going to be able to cope.

[BrilloPad]

Ah yes. Petzold. Those were the days.

[Moscow Mule]

Is it bollocks.

I've yet to find a design framework that will write legible RPGILE code for me.

I've also yet to find an off-shore coding team that can write legible RPGILE code, but that's a different pot of fish altogether.

[EternalOptimist]

In the old days, to get anything to work you had to resort to low level tulip like C and assembler, now you just open your favourite design surface and drag and drop coloured shapes and lines, click deploy and carry on posting on CUK.

If it gets any easier I'm not sure I'm going to be able to cope.

whats never ceased to amaze me, is that if you know one single atom-sized miniscule tenny-weeny useless bit of stuff that the permies dont know, they think the sun shines out of your flipping @rse

[VectraMan]

Ah yes. Petzold. Those were the days.

Funnily enough Petzold popped into my head this morning for no apparent reason. I was thinking of that first chapter in the Programming Windows book where he showed the typical one line C command line "Hello World" program, followed by the two page listing that was required to do the same in Windows.

[snaw]

In the old days, to get anything to work you had to resort to low level tulip like C and assembler, now you just open your favourite design surface and drag and drop coloured shapes and lines, click deploy and carry on posting on CUK.

If it gets any easier I'm not sure I'm going to be able to cope.

Fack off. Try doing multicast over MPLS if you seriously want your brain twisted ...

[DimPrawn]

Nah, I'll stick with the drag n drop, have another sip of coffee and a biscuit, enterprise integration stuff.

[expat]

Funnily enough Petzold popped into my head this morning for no apparent reason. I was thinking of that first chapter in the Programming Windows book where he showed the typical one line C command line "Hello World" program, followed by the two page listing that was required to do the same in Windows.

ISTR that he did point out reasonably that

printf("Hello, World");

will not do all that the Windows program does, until you write your window manager too.

[DimPrawn]

http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/Do...otTheMind.html

Yes.

[ace00]

In the old days, to get anything to work you had to resort to low level tulip like C and assembler.............

When I were a lad we had to stick wires on t' chip's pin connectors to activate the logic gates. Then we had to work out how the logic function would affect each bit. And convert that to Hex.