The future of Programming?

During Gartner's Application Development Summit, analysts Dale Veccio and Matt Hoyle focused on four themes, among which the new application development lifecycle in which the emphasis is delivering applications better and faster.

"The future of application development is not about programmer productivity," said Hoyle during the keynote presentation, "but in assembling functionality from components." While programming will not go away, he stressed, programming has decreasing importance in delivering excellence.