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I worked at 3 different companies in the mid 1990s that had teams actively working on COBOL systems and they were all using mainframe based version control systems. I think the iss…

Given the current day struggle to merge code with whitespace differences, merging differently arranged visual programming elements where the end result is the same but the position…

I think the limitation that no-one has managed to solve is that visual programming paradigm approaches tend to focus on solving a specific type of problem (drag and drop GUI builde…

Re. thinking better: I think we forget programming languages are just tools. (Almost) anyone can learn to program but it doesn't mean they're good at solving problems or are able t…

Other commercial development tools popular in the same time period just before Java's release also used p-code, e.g. Powerbuilder.

Side comment: most new developers tend to ignore/not read compile or runtime error messages and ask for help before even realizing the cause of the problem they're trying to fix is…