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These paradigm changes have greatly increased my power to express program logic, such that my programs have gotten smaller, simpler, and much easier to understand, while supporting ever-increasing user capabilities. When I started programming, I worked with simple command-line interfaces and text-based “green screens.” Next I produced “fat-client” graphical user interfaces, and now I work on Web-enabled user interfaces. Again, each paradigm switch has greatly increased user power, flexibility, and ease of use while the code required to produce the interfaces has decreased and is much simpler to understand. Data Storage and Retrieval Problems Unfortunately, I haven’t seen the same kinds of advances in data retrieval and storage. In fact, I think we’ve declined in that area as an increasing number of data source/data sink technologies such as XML, guaranteed messagin... (more)