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AI in reality (slrpnk.net)

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[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 100 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People thought COBOL would let managers write code.

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago

It's by design very verbose and "English"-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go "MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x", the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.