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As for programming for non-programmers, Ruby is still a programming language for programmers. Just higher-level one.

But there are tools like LabVIEW and Simulink (MATLAB plugin), which are fairly popular among engineers.



Ok, I tell you one everyone knows: Excel.


OK, so you've got an example that is all but a straight line from Visicalc. If that's still the dominant example after all these decades, it does not sound like a market that has been successfully disrupted, right? And indeed many have tried and all have failed. It is exactly what the article says, a perennial startup loser (and open source project loser too).


Yes, spreadsheets are the obvious case of "programming for non-programmers" having succeeded. Are there others? Hypercard? Lotus Notes?


HTML?


Indeed.




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