Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Re: Will future programmers probably warn people not to use high-level programming languages just as most programmers today warn people not to use assembler?

On 30/10/19 3:17 am, Nathan Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 7:41 AM Clark Block <clarkblock1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just as most programmers today warn people not to use assembler, probably
>> future programmers will warn people not to use high-level programming
>> languages.
>
> In the future, computers will program programmers.

"Man must be master" is the phrase that comes to mind.

Electronic computers exist to do the low-level dull data drudgery under
the guidance of their human operators, not the other way around.
--
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

I haven't lost my mind...
...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

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