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The futurist in me thinks the following: in a 100 years programs will program themselves. We'll just need a reliable way to tell them what to program.
by siavosh 11y ago
The futurist in me thinks the following: in a 100 years programs will program themselves. We'll just need a reliable way to tell them what to program.
- phpnode 11y agoGreat news, The Future is here already! These reliable methods for telling computers what to compute are known as Programming Languages.
- siavosh 11y agoThe closest paradigm to what I was trying to imply are more general purpose declarative languages. Something like sql or rich logic libraries that let the developer describe the desired result rather than the 'how.' Now advance this by 100 years, and I would hope anyone can program arbitrarily complex things by using graphical/natural-language tools to specify constraints, and then the 'program' arbitrarily generates the lower-level code.
- pekk 11y agoSo the future is Prolog?
- DonaldFisk 11y agoIt may be from the early 1970s, but compared to the mainstream programming languages of today, it still look pretty futuristic to me.
- MichaelGG 11y agoAren't most things from the 70s? Did we get any serious new language tech since then? Tooling got nicer, runtimes faster - but the language breakthroughs?