You young developers don't know you're born

[sasguru]

Well I must admit to not seeing SAS for a couple of decades.

In fact my only real experience of it is installing it and playing around making it do the 'cowboy hat' plot etc.

Perhaps it's come on in leaps and bounds.

For what I call proper BI, which to me is stats analysis and modelling, it really has no competitor.

[shashee]

as a user experience specialist I can say that declaritive syntax has made my job much easier. It separates logic from the presentation.

[d000hg]

Blimey. Your VS must be a hell of a lot more visual than mine.

As well as standard visual design for forms and web-pages, Windows Workflow is about joinng boxes together

[bogeyman]

As well as standard visual design for forms and web-pages, Windows Workflow is about joinng boxes together

I only really use VS to knock-up C# prototypes with no UI so I suppose those wonders are lost on me.

[Jeebo72]

Fortran 77 ... those were the days ...

[d000hg]

Like fusion power, it's been 'around the corner' for decades that soon we'll be able to create software by connecting boxes and let the tool generate code for us.

The only times when you really can create software without writing code, the configuration files you have to set up end up being as hard to write as the code would have been in the first place.

[Moscow Mule]

Like fusion power, it's been 'around the corner' for decades that soon we'll be able to create software by connecting boxes and let the tool generate code for us.

Synon. Still dealing with the unsupportable bulltulip that pile of crap produced 15-odd years ago.

*shudder*

[NotAllThere]

Yeah, but you wouldn't want to write an ecommerce system with it!

No. You'd use ABAP and Web Dynpro for that.

[Zippy]

Oi.

That's my Line.

Ok.

FORTRAN IV.

Those were the days.

Aye - when the MTBF of the hardware was less than the time the code took to execute.

Them were the days indeed.