I'd agree, but some tools just make it easier to design and build a complex system whatever the level of experience of the programmer(s), designers and so on.
This programming language and IDE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarion_(programming_language) is behind some of the biggest databases in the world. Because of the openess of the IDE, in one instance it was possible to migrate one country's main cancer charity app from ISAM files to MS SQL, and rewrite it from procedural to OOP code in just two hours! Admittedly it took a week to build a program to do the coding changes, but that program became a tool in its own right to migrate other programs, but the original devs thought it would take a human 3months to do the work, which is already several months less than if the program was written in another language!
Various banks and other stock market listed companies. Even various military use it for their own top secret work.
The key to its success is the template language, which enables the programmers to work at a higher level of abstraction which for some reason just doesnt seem popular amongst many programmers. You can use the templates to write code in other languages, including Java, PHP, ASP.net, javescript and more.
Its safe to say, that everyone in the Western world will have some of their details stored in a Clarion built database, and its not just limited to building databases, its even been used to build highly scalable webservers.
Theres also C/C++, Assembler and Modula-2 built into the compiler, so you can get right down to low level coding if required, and there's a Clarion.net version which is mainly like C# but has some of the data handling benefits of F#.
These are just some of the big corps who use Clarion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBT_Online_Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experian
Various banks and other stock market listed companies. Even various military use it for their own top secret work.
The key to its success is the template language, which enables the programmers to work at a higher level of abstraction which for some reason just doesnt seem popular amongst many programmers. You can use the templates to write code in other languages, including Java, PHP, ASP.net, javescript and more.
Its safe to say, that everyone in the Western world will have some of their details stored in a Clarion built database, and its not just limited to building databases, its even been used to build highly scalable webservers. Theres also C/C++, Assembler and Modula-2 built into the compiler, so you can get right down to low level coding if required, and there's a Clarion.net version which is mainly like C# but has some of the data handling benefits of F#.