Whatever Happened To Programming?

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 6, 2010 @04:26PM from the you-had-zeros? dept.

Mirk writes "In a recent interview, Don Knuth wrote: 'The way a lot of programming goes today isn't any fun because it's just plugging in magic incantations — combine somebody else's software and start it up.' The Reinvigorated Programmer laments how much of our 'programming' time is spent pasting not-quite-compatible libraries together and patching around the edges." This 3-day-old article has sparked lively discussions at Reddit and at Hacker News, and the author has responded with a followup and summation.

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Re:Crappy frameworks, tools and web standards by shutdown+-p+now · 2010-03-06 21:40 · Score: 1, Troll

Second, Access is not a web platform (such as using HTTP as a GUI primitive control transport). And third, SharePoint only has rudimentary CRUD ability (although is likely to improve, but in a proprietary way).
Access 2010 lets you design applications as usual, and "publish" them to SharePoint as web apps. There are some limitations there, of course, but not as many as one may think (and it's definitely above what SP offers out of the box).