Re: looks like some web developers are getting back into 4GL environment...

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:42:08 +0000
Message-ID: <7765c8970511180042m16713530p4c0713c80fb7bcfd@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/18/05, amwilson_at_iinet.net.au <amwilson_at_iinet.net.au> wrote:

> I suspect many on this list may have a problem with some of the attitudes
> surrounding this particular methodology.

Including me, certainly the soundbites around it suggest someone inventing something new before understanding something old. I did like the quote from the article though (emphasis mine) "His software, Ruby on Rails, only out for a little more than a year, has started a buzz among the legions of
developers<http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.technorati.com%2Fsearch%2Fruby%2Bon%2Brails&siteId=3&oId=2100-1007-5920169&ontId=1001&lop=nl.ex>and high-level executives that track
*the trend-driven world of software development. "*

To be fair though, the software seems deliberately aimed at the small scale, non mission critical web environments that litter the place today, I nearly said the LAMP market, but there is an ASP equivalent in the windows world.

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