>could finally cut out the pesky "translators", i.e. software developers The fallacy here is that programming is not a process of translation. It is a process

>could finally cut out the pesky "translators", i.e. software developers The fallacy here is that programming is not a process of translation. It is a process of invention. Going from rough or high-level functional requirements to a functioning computer program requires inventing novel logic that has not been invented at any other step. It involves making business decisions that have not been made at any prior step. Whatever can be categorized as menial "translation", i.e. a step in the business process where no new logic is added or business decision made, has already been automated away - compilers.