Most overhyped software engineering technologies of the last 20 years

Post by khafra » Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 5:01 PM UTC

bitwize wrote: post #26

edw519 wrote: post #22

Cloud Computing - A term, like "world peace", "think outside the box", or "hooking up", that means everything and nothing at the same time. Fourth General Languages (4GLs) - Technology to enable non-programmers to claim that they are programmers. eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) - Primary data, along with secondary data needed to describe the primary data, all in one file, that a receiving program could act upon, as…

I've found that people tell me "You're not thinking outside the box" when they want me to accept something fundamentally untenable.

Post by hernan7 » Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 5:15 PM UTC

Post by khafra » Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 5:34 PM UTC

luu wrote: post #20

I'm surprised VRML wasn't listed; I remember when VRML was supposed to be the future. It was the original web 2.0.

Post by spitfire » Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 9:59 PM UTC

Post by Semiapies » Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 11:43 PM UTC

srbloom wrote: post #19

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #14

Hmmmm. There is a difference between over-hyped and having a bitch-fest about things your boss thought was cool. Very sorry you had to do too much UML on that last project but it works very well for what it is: a universal way of diagramming parts of computer systems for purposes of communicating about them. Probably not so good as a universal spec system, or a runnable model, or any one of the 17 other things folks…

I think the way people are responding isn't helping this question. This could have been good if responders had elaborated on what was promised vs what was delivered, but instead they just list the technology and write, essentially, "this was overhyped".