On 14/06/13 20:09, Jim Mooney wrote:
Of course, the real consideration, for those thinking of programming as
a career path, is whether programmers will be as obsolete at gaslighters
in twenty years - or will they be doing some sort of weird meta-programming?
COBOL - COmmon Business Oriented Language.
Designed in the 1950s to enable 'ordinary business users' to write their
own programs and thus render programmers obsolete....
And by the standards of the languages I was using in the 1970/80s Python
is a kind of weird meta programming! :-)
That's been the holy grail of computer science since its inception.
--
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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