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I think is better to say "software usable in 10 minutes" for people that is not a full time developer.

Things like excel, access fit there. The big mistake is not provide a way out the "click and get a full app!" step. This in when things go to fail with this kind of ideas.

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I learn foxpro as my first language and is surprising how many "non developers" use it in the day.

I think it get loved precisely because was a bit "harder" than access: You hit a wall with access/excel much faster than foxpro/jupyter, making them for some people HARDER tools than the "harder" tool.

Not fun when things are easy, and suddenly, impossible. I say that we can give people credit and them could learn some complex stuff, as long fit well their use case.




Foxpro, visual basic (6 and below), and pre-bad delphi were workhorses. Surely, demand for similar tools today still exists.


I think the same. My side project is to build something alike. Programming move out "RAD" tools when the web come and making rad for web is near impossible, so somehow that translate "and then stop for everything else".

Ironic, because now with mobile it have a good chance!


Hypercard, Lotus Notes, Lotus Approach, Excel Macros, Access, and others


Yes, we are building something like this, very VB 6/Deplhi like at yazz.com




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