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New Sorry, sounds like YAMB: Yet Another Magic Bullet
Ace is unique because it provides a natural way for developers to describe the "intent" of the application precisely, as opposed to manually writing the code that implements that intent.

Oh, right.

It may be a 4GL-like higher-level abstraction than bare Java or C, but "a natural way for developers to describe the intent of the application precisely"? GMAB. That still doesn't even *touch* the most common problem today, which is users either giving you spurious wish lists, not really being able to describe what they want, describing their *current* system when what they really want/need is a new and improved system, changing requirements, and half a dozen other of the fun things normal developers have to run through.

The day I can get someone to tell *me* what the actual intent of an application is, and all the goals and hopes for a particular project, will probably be the day I die of a heart attack.
The lawyers would mostly rather be what they are than get out of the way even if the cost was Hammerfall. - Jerry Pournelle
New Looks like an old bullet to me
I read over the white papers they had at the site, and this looks like a case tool. Back in the early 80's when everyone was talking about language and computer generations, case tools where one of the proposed 5th gen languages.

The idea of the case tool was to create a language for specify a program at a high level, incorporating buisness logic and so on. The case tool would then build the code needed for the application, usually outputting source code that the developers then could touch up to add features the case tool didn't cover.

Case tools where all the rage for a while in some industries, mostly heavily regulated ones, where every company needs similar applications and has similar internal process.

Nobody could ever break out into the general buisness market though, and the idea eventually died off.

Jay
     Project Ace: Fast Development Applications - (bluke) - (6)
         Sorry, sounds like YAMB: Yet Another Magic Bullet - (wharris2) - (1)
             Looks like an old bullet to me - (JayMehaffey)
         Sun's 5th Ace - (tuberculosis) - (2)
             Agreed, and... - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                 Re: Agreed, and... - (deSitter)
         Pet Store benchmark - (tablizer)

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