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RE: The future of programming languages is English
It's amazing how far we've come!
I wrote my very first piece of code in BASIC on paper tape in 1976! Subsequently learned COBOL and that was all on IBM cards to actually execute it.
The thing I wonder about with these new language iterations is whether any of the old fundamentals such as "structured programming" persist.
I have not been in the coding biz for years, but one of the things we always worried about in the 90's was "code bloat," because everything became ever larger patches on top of patches on top of patches, rather than redoing from the ground up.
It is amazing to see how things have changed. Beyond the raw technology, some of the things that I specifically learned to avoid as "bad practice" in structured programming courses are now standard practice (multiple return points from functions, for example). Code bloat is still a thing, but I guess it's mostly called "technical debt" now. And somewhere along the way faster hardware and better compilers made it cost-effective to optimize for the programmer's time, instead of the program's performance. I also haven't programmed professionally since the '90s, but to me the emergence of LLMs feels almost like someone hit the "pause" button for 30 years and just recently hit "play" again😁.
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