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The Plain English programming language lives!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yoda wrote:
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Complete rubbish. However, it would be true if programmers built the same app every week.
/ravi
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Several years ago I was hanging with a good friend of mine when I got on this kick about "...but if you could write a PROGRAM to do that..." for about 24 hours straight.
She and I finally decided on our list of things that we would never want machines to do for us because that would dehumanize us. I think we came up with, in no particular order:
- Cooking
- Gardening
- Sex
- Writing
- Drawing
- Composing
- Acting
Another good programmer friend/colleague of mine that I met doing some Expert Systems work used to always talk about working on "button that code itself" and "self-coding code"... Maybe if he's done with those yet we can all start on our own lists... 
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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And who writes the programs that lets other people "program" without "programming?"
Marc
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It's turtles all the way down.
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In college (early 80s) a lecturer spoke about the future of 'artificial intelligence'. I asked him if AI would be able to make reasoned decisions in much the way a child can or would it be based on a series of pre-programmed scenarios?
The answer was: scenarios. My comment, then no intelligence whatsoever, just a machine doing what it was told to do. Not much has changed.
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When this programmer extinction arrives, what will the people who drag-and-drop buttons, correlate database tables, and assign actions to controls?
In the 90's we called them Visual Basic Programmers, but they were still Programmers.
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People have been predicting programming as a profession to die out for decades, and they've been consistently wrong. Tasks automated to no longer need a programmer end up becoming resources for more advanced programs build upon, requiring more programmers.
Software developers today already write code in high level languages abstracted far away from the machine they are writing for. They already focus mostly on logic and not on translating for a machine, and yet software development is still a specialized profession not usually tackled by experts in other professions. Programmers are more than middlemen; they have specialized skillsets that require lots of time and energy to obtain.
The author of this article vastly underestimates both the amount of expertise and the value of the expertise of various software development skills. Furthermore, even if many programming tasks could be easily done by amateurs, they would still end up being done by specialists because people in other professions would choose not to do them in favor of spending more time on their own area of expertise.
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The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported in February that Apple's automotive plans were real and advancing, and a report from Bloomberg a few days later hinted at a possible launch in 2020. The design of the charging cable will change every year, and there's only one pedal
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Licensing will be per-seat.
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Ow... and boo 
(Boo only because I didn't think of that)
TTFN - Kent
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Because licensing on Apple products is somehow different than other similar products? 
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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And it will only operate on an apple road.
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...and the tires cannot be replaced.
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And to turn you'll need to swipe your hand across the wind shield ... but wait, that's also how you select between the go-faster and go-slower action for the pedal.
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A French data protection agency today denied an appeal by search-giant Google in a case involving the controversial right to be forgotten ruling. Remember: you must forget
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Need another country to have a 'right to remember' law now...or maybe they could have a law that all french people must use .fr domains?
Another blindingly obvious result of this stupid law that achieves nothing.
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cjb110 wrote: Another blindingly obvious result of this stupid law that achieves nothing.
..and I thought we all enjoyed not reading the "this site uses cookies" banners before clicking the "accept" button on every website we visit. 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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A quick shift from Windows 8.1 upgraders to those updating from Windows 7 is good news for Microsoft. "I still don't know what I was waiting for, and my time was running wild"
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So, does the increase in usage share for Windows 8.1 after five weeks imply that people who moved to Windows 10 are fed up with it and turning back now? 
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That looks a lot more like either a blip or a correction from too small a sample window. IOW what we're really seeing is an adjustment in the W7 to W8.x ratio. With W10 only gaining 0.2%/week at the moment you're looking at numbers that're probably on the same scale as the margin of error. Even the monthly version trend numbers have a weird bobble or two every year. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Apple's Swift programming language is enjoying a meteoric rise in popularity and gaining new followers at an unprecedented rate, according to a recent study. From 0 to "Please Kill Objective-C already" in just a year or so
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Outbreak may have caused hundreds of millions of people to download malicious apps. Apple computers are immune to malware...right?
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