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That’s the same misconception about programming that people had decades ago. People thought the same thing when we introduced 5GLs back in the 1980s, and there
by klodolph 4y ago
That’s the same misconception about programming that people had decades ago. People thought the same thing when we introduced 5GLs back in the 1980s, and there was a lot of hype, and programming became more accessible, but demand for programmers increased rather than decreasing. People thought the same thing back when Fortran was introduced in the 1950s, and programming became more accessible, but the demand for programmers increased rather than decreasing.
The trick is that you need to hire someone to come up with a description of the problem which is precise enough that a computer can handle the rest. That person is the programmer.
If you’re being sarcastic, it’s not clear, just put a /s on the end or something.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoSame with SQL, which was promised as a way for data processing managers to get rid of expensive programmers as the managers would now be able to get whatever information they wanted from their databases using an easy to understand, English like language. All it did was change the nature of the job of retrieving and storing database information but didn't actually get rid of the programmers.
- commandlinefan 4y ago> All it did was change the nature of the job It also created SQL injection vulnerabilities, so there's that.
- TylerE 4y agoNo, that’s something bad programming languages did. SQL is purely declarative.
- butlerm 4y agoINSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE sound quite imperative to me. Not to mention DROP TABLE.
- wellanyway 4y agoAll but one sublanguages of SQL are imperative... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_manipulation_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_manipulation_language