What's all this, then? Programming was automated 65 years ago. The "Formula Translating System" introduced in 1957 eliminated the drudgery of programming by a

What's all this, then? Programming was automated 65 years ago. The "Formula Translating System" introduced in 1957 eliminated the drudgery of programming by allowing users to simply enter equations into a computer directly. Specifying machine instructions and memory addresses by hand rapidly became a thing of the past. Today, having a programming assistant is as quaint as a secretary.