Jedi Wish List

Have any of these wishes become obsolete in the last 8 years?

• Eradicate typographical errors from the development process.

• Remove source code from the development process.

• Move the emphasis of the development process from coding to design.

• Make the development process a visual rather than linguistic one.

• Move maintenance from code to design.

• Make debugging easy

• Make designs directly executable

• Make viewing levels of abstraction easy.

• Make moving from one level of abstraction to aqnother easy.

• Make development using design patterns easy.

• Enable collaborative design and development easy.

• Allow context sensitive viewing possible using programming user profiles.

• Enable something VR telepresence. Allow user definable representation of inter-entity relationships.

• Allow vocal annotation of designs.

• Infinitely expandable application architecture. Allow user modification and enhancement of the application architecture.

• Platform independence.

• Make IDE adaptable to your style of thinking/coding and let it produce a PUP for you.

• Make standards, spec and protocols easy to produce and use to control the design process.

• Make the protocols/specs etc easy to analyse.

• Promote formal methods and provable designs.

• Allow the optimisation of code. Ie the production of fast code.

• Enable the uniform representstion of all types as classes.

• Define the “type” that you wish to use by defining its type rather than defining it name.