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php was still fundamentally a programming language you had to learn. This is “I wanted to make a program for my wife to do something she doesn’t have time to do
by throwaway173738 10mo ago
php was still fundamentally a programming language you had to learn. This is “I wanted to make a program for my wife to do something she doesn’t have time to do manually” but made quickly with a machine. It’s probably going to do for programming what the Jacquard Loom did for cloth. Make it cheap enough that everyone can have lots of different shirts of their own style.
- jasonfarnon 10mo agoBut the wife didn't do it herself. He still had to do it for her, the author says. I don't think (yet) we're at the point where every person who has an idea for a really good app can make it happen. They'll still need a wozniak, it's just that wozniaks will be a dime a dozen. The php analogy works.
- inopinatus 10mo agoWhat the Jacquard machine did for cloth was turn it into programming.