Time continues to be a flat circle, this is from April 1987 talking about how you will still need programmers even with application generators. Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=Zx4i2o3UhvEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false As a side bar, I hope Stephen Manes feels vindicated, since the whole article is really about wanting a more accessible language to usurp C. Which is exactly what happened with Python.