[olliemath]

Yes. I had pretty much this conversation a while back with some non-technically minded people who had been convinced that by creating an ontology and set of "semantic business rules" - a lot of the writing of actual code could be automated away, leaving the business team to just create rules in a language almost like English and have the machine execute those English-like rules.

I had to explain that they were basically on track to re-implementing COBOL.