>I don't think there is all that much new under the sun anymore as far as programming is concerned. Object orientation was probably the last huge improvement, but now vendors seem to be going around and around with incremental improvements, some of which are actually no improvements at all. Take XAML for example, please. It has been around for a few years already, and only now its biggest proponent (MS) is coming out with a well integrated graphical design interface for it. Once you get used to dragging and dropping objects onto a design surface and quickly setting their various properties, events and methods, going back to doing almost everything by hand again is painful and unusually cruel. It is like going back to using @ x, y SAY -statements to create a report in Foxpro rather than using the report designer. There is something seriously wrong with all this circular evolution.

Hi Pertti,

Object Orientation is far from new, it was actually invented in 1968 by the two Norwegian professors Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl when they created the Simula programming language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula