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Cobol was designed so that business people could program it. Then there was Basic, Smalltalk, spreadsheets, office suites, Lotus Notes, Hypercard, Visual Basic, Flash and the web used to be something simple enough anyone could whip a simple page or website together. But now we have Wordpress and Wix.

It doesn't seem like any of that has diminished the demand for software professionals.




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