Software Factories touted

in: InfoWorld.

Microsoft's Software Factories and Domain-Specific Language (DSL) technologies were touted as medicine for what ails software development, by a presenter at the VSLive conference on Wednesday.

Ok, for much as I believe on Microsoft's Software Factories and Domain-Specific Language (DSL) technologies, one thing is for sure: these aren't Silver Bullets...

Though not of simple defense, I can relate to:

Unified Modeling Language documentation is prone to obsolescence.

Why? Because UML is too much generalized. And we also end up stereotyping a lot of concepts that are, in fact, defining some kind of less readable DSL...

But I have some problems with the following:

Agile programming, which relies on harvesting the practices of a few of the most productive developers, also does not fully solve the problems of software development.

I truly think this concept is orthogonal to the SF/DSL.