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Dead-End Code

A dead end is reached by many users who get carried away by the supposedly easy programming with no-code/low-code tools to excursions into computer science. SAP fuels this desire for doom with loose marketing slogans.
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
April 6, 2021
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The invention of run-simple programming languages is logical and welcome, but the tool belongs in professional hands! I live in a new building with concrete walls and tried to drill a hole for a dowel with a Hilti - actually, I failed already when mounting the drill head correctly.

My brother-in-law, a bricklayer by trade, helped me out and in three minutes the job was done. My wife at the time was amused for a long time that I had trouble getting the toolbox into the apartment, while her brother juggled the Hilti easily with one hand.

No-code/low-code programming is a powerful tool in the hands of a computer scientist - everyone else can do a lot of damage with it. SAP now offers four variants of a no-code/low-code tool.

An inexperienced user will hardly be able to determine the qualified differences. The result can be dead-end code at best. SAP should be more responsible and honest with its existing customers. The products in the SAP PKL (price and conditions list) are good, but they also belong in the right hands.

SAP sales sometimes shies away from constructive and critical discussion with the IT department and prefers to tell the business departments run-simple fairy tales, but sooner or later this always leads to a dead end.

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Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

Peter M. Färbinger, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief E3 Magazine DE, US and ES (e3mag.com), B4Bmedia.net AG, Freilassing (DE), E-Mail: pmf@b4bmedia.net and Tel. +49(0)8654/77130-21


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