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Comment by csixty4

10 days ago

They were when we called them 4GLs.

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mr-ron  10 days ago

You mean things like Ruby, Python, Java, SQL that are ubiquitous today?

  • sarchertech  9 days ago

    Yeah but the hype was that the user would become the programmer and programmers wouldn’t be needed anymore.

    • mr-ron  9 days ago

      Well theres a lot less assembly workers, and that tech is now everywhere. Seems like exactly what will happen with AI

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