>>It looks fairly easy and declarative code to me.
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>Really?
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>To use a metaphor -- I guess this Finnish word-sentence looks easy enough for the people who've grown up with the language:
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>Isänikinköhänkään? (translated: I wonder if it was also my father -- starts with the base word isä -- father -- and builds out from there in a "declarative" way) <g>
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>Maybe all of this just takes (a whole lot of) getting used to, and once I get used to the pain I won't even notice it any longer.
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>Pertti

The hope is that after enough people tell you that this is better, you will forget how much easier development was and how much faster it was to develop with well designed and implemented environments.

Trying to defend wonderful new technologies that require many times the grunt work to implement compared to earlier technologies that went to great lengths to reduce the workload is laughable.

Yes - we are going backwards - just don't admit it.