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 …

DBMS market share trends of last decade by Gartner on the big picture

This is the revised translation of my article published in "ITWeek" magazine January 24, 2019, text on the site

An expert tries to know more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. And a philosopher tries to know less and less about more and …

Let's see one simple example showing how the methods and the languages of graphical user interface (GUI) description are progressing (or regressing, it depends) during the last 15-20 years.

The primitive form description requires:

1996: Delphi 2

object Form1: TForm1
  Left = 0
  Top = 0
  Caption = 'Test form'
  ClientHeight = 131
  ClientWidth …