The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - Again
One thought re @manjoo2023end—It’s the End of Computer Programming as We Know It. (And I Feel Fine.):
I cite to @ensmenger2010computer's history of computing and technical expertise in my Appendix III. Code Generation Tools and Search musings on the potential impact of these new technologies, and then write (p. 133):
The programming languages used by my research participants are far simpler to use and understand than even the “automatic programming” languages of the past, like FORTRAN and COBOL. The hard problems remain, how to use a tool to do something you or someone else wants.
The history of programming is the history of reducing the effort required to communicate a design to a machine.