I agree, but a lot of the code written today is just adapter code: adapting from the database to the business objects, from the business objects to/from the network to/from the GUI to/from XML or JSON, etc. While working on Google's FOAM Framework, we found that we could typically eliminate between 80-98% of the code required to develop systems, with the higher end of that range being more typical. So while we still need programmers, we need fewer of them.
I agree, but a lot of the code written today is just adapter code: adapting from the database to the business objects, from the business objects to/from the network to/from the GUI to/from XML or JSON, etc. While working on Google's FOAM Framework, we found that we could typically eliminate between 80-98% of the code required to develop systems, with the higher end of that range being more typical. So while we still need programmers, we need fewer of them.
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