A Peek Under Intentional’s Skirt

The guys from Intentional Software did a presentation on their Domain Workbench at the DSL DevCon which is now available at the Oslo Developer Center. The company was started by Charles Simoyi (of MS Word and multiple space trips fame), who has used the squillions he made from his work at Microsoft to try to come up with a who new way of developing software. The idea is that programmers work on the heavy lifting of software while the business users do the business logic.  The idea is a bit “ho-hum, we’ve heard all this before”, but when you see complex maths, and circuit diagrams sitting alongside code you have to sit up and take notice. The first couple of versions of the grand idea were scrapped when they ran into dead ends, and they just started again from scratch – that’s conviction! I’ve been keeping an ear to the ground for a while to see what comes out of their shop and I am really impressed. Just watch it.