But in 2007, you do need to let go of the idea that all we're doing with “business programming” is building web applications that are replacing the client-server applications of the eighties and nineties that themselves replaced the green screen terminal applications of the seventies and eighties.Posted by ronlusk at January 24, 2007 04:10 PMThe “leading edge” interface and ideas employed by Google, Amazon, eBay, and Yahoo! are suffusing our culture to become the standard user interface of web applications. And programming the standard user interface is a basic job requirement. Learn to love it.