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181 points thunderbong | 3 comments | 28 Aug 25 15:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.656s | source

1. nomilk ◴[31 Aug 25 19:30 UTC] No.45086286[source]▶

> English as code

First time encountering the phrase.

Evolution went from Machine Code to Assembly to Low-level programming languages to High-level programming languages (with frameworks), to... plain English.

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2. mjhagen ◴[31 Aug 25 19:41 UTC] No.45086379[source]▶

>>45086286 (TP) #

that phrase was used all the time to describe HyperTalk and AppleTalk

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3. sema4hacker ◴[31 Aug 25 20:49 UTC] No.45086952[source]▶

>>45086379 #

In the early 70's Microdata trademarked "English" as the name of their SQL-like database retrieval language.

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Vibe coding as a coding veteran: from 8-bit assembly to English-as-code