There is Nothing Easy about Programming
The eWeek posting Microsoft Pushes Cloud Development begins by saying
“Microsoft is at work on a project to enable everyday developers to build Web applications, just as easily as folks have built Visual Basic applications over the years. The project to enable this is called Volta and it is headed up by Erik Meijer…”
I have a problem with this statement. Easily is defined as “without difficulty or effort.” Nothing is easy about any programming, not even using Visual Basic, or maybe it is more accurate saying, especially using Visual Basic, since so many incompatible technologies have been folded into it over the years, making it anything but easy.
Check out the Erik Meijer videos Volta - Wrapping the Cloud with .NET - Part 1 and Volta - Wrapping the Cloud with .NET - Part 2. After viewing them, I walk away with the view that Volta requires understanding the realities and issues of object-oriented classes and methods, graphical user interfaces, Web servers, databases, etc… Anything but easy!
One thing Volta does do is make developing multi-tiered applications easier, mind you not easy, by having not to commit early on in the development on which tier a class or method resides.
…John
