Well "No Code Programming" seems a lot like Apple's "New Paradigm" of editing with FCP X. First there was machine language/assembly language where the Dave Bargins of the world learned how to code at a machine level without the aid of higher level languages. The result was extremely efficient coding that maximized performance with little to no RAM by today's standards. Then with compilers and interpreters you could program in higher level languages like Fortran back in the day. Those have evolved to the point where I'd bet it's hard to find coders who really understand the machine level stuff. The result is amazing software that is less efficiently coded.
Now you don't even have to understand a higher level language to code? Well that will just add one more layer of abstraction and when that generation of coders or should I say non coders run into problems they won't have the raw skill to troubleshoot. That's progress?
I read recently that they need to find old programmers that can work with the old satellite technology of the deep space probes. They can't find young engineers that know Fortran etc.. That's kind of like what's happening in our industry with the loss of internships and apprentice positions. You can't expect someone to know something they've never had to deal with. My brother is a nuclear physicist/engineer and he says it's the same in his profession with the younger physicists not having the basic building blocks he had to learn when he started. Kinda scary when the Nuclear Plant manager only knows how to Reboot the Reactor and not really how to fix it.
Nice article.
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