Short history of information technologies

Ancient world

• 1950s – Compilers will make programmers obsolete
• 1960-70s - 3rd generation programming languages will reduce programmer shortages

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Middle Ages

• 1980s - 4rd generation programming languages and CASE tools will definitely reduce programmer shortages
• 1980s – client server SQL DBMS will solve mainframe “vendor lock”
• 1990s – 3-tiers architecture will solve DBMS “vendor lock …