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So far it still seems like it still is, but I think we will shortly have a lot of convoluted and very sparsely informational code that will be a PITA to read as

So far it still seems like it still is, but I think we will shortly have a lot of convoluted and very sparsely informational code that will be a PITA to read as a human. I'm already reading a ton of LLM generated code by less skilled developers and understanding and reviewing it requires a paranoid attention to detail of the reader that I think you probably lack if these tools to generate large chunks of code seems like a good option to you at all. Very tangential, but I could swear QBasic included an on-disk documentation system accessible from the editor. Maybe only later versions?

purplesyringa 6mo ago
> Very tangential, but I could swear QBasic included an on-disk documentation system accessible from the editor. Maybe only later versions? Perhaps my installation didn't include it, or maybe you're confusing it with QuickBASIC, a more feature-complete IDE with a compiler (instead of just an interpreter). I don't exactly remember.
professoretc 6mo ago
I just tried QBasic 1.1 and it includes context-sensitive help: press F1 on a keyword to get documentation for it.