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Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"

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448 points nimbleplum40 | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 03:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Animats ◴[03 Apr 25 06:57 UTC] No.43565810[source]▶
(2010)

This refers to the era of COBOL, or maybe Hypertalk, not LLMs.

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guy234 ◴[03 Apr 25 07:04 UTC] No.43565869[source]▶
The original text was from 1978 according to other sources
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bambax ◴[03 Apr 25 08:28 UTC] No.43566597[source]▶
Ah, thanks. Yes it couldn't have been 2010 because he died in 2002. But the date this was written is important, otherwise his references to "the last decade" don't mean anything!
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1. yaris ◴[03 Apr 25 09:34 UTC] No.43567139{3}[source]▶
Many would say that "the last decade" (with the surrounding context) is timeless, or at least that it is still relevant today.