| > had no idea what a pain it is to make an iPhone app. I’d tried a few times and never got beyond something that half worked. I found Apple’s programming environment forbidding. What's missing these days is domain-specific languages (DSL). Maybe domain-specific API's (libraries) can be made better, but I have not seen it done well yet. Domain specific languages made it easy and DIRECT to do things you wanted done in that domain, no weird-ass reverse dependency factory visitor injection design patterns or whatnot, you only had domain-oriented commands and the basics of functions, loops, and conditionals to glue them together. Sure, they didn't scale well to "enterprise", but if that's not what you want, so be it! Global variables didn't kill kittens at that scale like "real" software engineers warn against. I barely had to read the manual when learning VB classic, Microsoft Access (pre XML), Paradox, etc. it was so intuitive and almost everything related to the domain (desktop GUI's and small-ish CRUD). It was almost like pseudo-code! That's the secret, the closer it is to domain-specific-pseudo-code, the easier it is to learn and the less bloated the code. Wanna make a successful tool for non-giant orgs or groups? Focus on the domain and only the domain; don't let fads and buzzwords and mega-scaling distract you. |