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The thing I'm finding hard to get my head around is people who are arguing that various languages such as COBOL or Python are, or might be considered low code o
by andrewstuart 5y ago
The thing I'm finding hard to get my head around is people who are arguing that various languages such as COBOL or Python are, or might be considered low code or no code.
To anyone who needs to hear this: if it's code based programming then it's not no-code or low-code - it's code.
Put more simply:
code != no-code
- HKH2 5y agoAre natural languages code? Isn't any symbolic representation code?
- recursive 5y agoNatural languages are generally full of ambiguity and not well specified.
- wiseowise 5y agoThere no such people. Only idiots being obtuse and moving their agenda using bogus comparison.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoWell, the goal of COBOL was to make something that everyone could use, so that professional programmers would be obsolete. It didn't succeed, and it doesn't look like "no code" to us today, but the goal was the same. But it's never really "no code". There's always "code", because you always have to tell the system what you want the program to do. However you tell it that, that description becomes the code.
- dagw 5y agoCOBOL and 'modern' Fortran (aka FORTRAN 66) where very much designed with the goal of making programming something that 'everybody' could do without having to learning about actual programming and computers and all that 'boring' stuff.
- rory 5y agoWell, it's a scale though, isn't it? <--Assembly----C----Scala----Django----Hasura----Bubble--> Each one involves telling your computer some logic, but on the left you have to be much more detailed and the computer makes fewer assumptions than on the right. Is Hasura Code or No Code™? I write some SQL or a GraphQL query, but I also click around and set permissions and relationships in a GUI.