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Fantastic read. My first real glimpse of what programming was like back then :) He speaks of the paradigm shift he underwent there, from punched cards to termi
by Aardwolf 12y ago
Fantastic read. My first real glimpse of what programming was like back then :)
He speaks of the paradigm shift he underwent there, from punched cards to terminals with screens (which seems close enough to using a text editor or IDE on your workstation now :)). Do you think a similar paradigm shift may happen again? If so, what could it be?
Could programming with a keyboard ever become obsolete? What if you could just ask your computer what you want in plain English and it actually understands and "implements" it?
- Cthulhu_ 12y agoYou mean like SQL? That is a literal / formal language, but still quite legible in English. A looser one is Siri and Google's voice recognition, same idea. The main problem though is interpretation and specificity, something which English isn't very good in (multiple interpretations possible). Which is what programmers are paid for; translating loose requirements ('I want a contact form') into code (fields, styling, validation, submission, storage, reporting, etc).
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