[Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

[keith smith]

Actually I think things have become more complicated in that web programming and all that go with it, is more difficult than C was on an 8088 in the early / mid / late 80's.

Given that I think people will always be involved.

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Keith Smith

--- On Wed, 1/19/11, Mike Martinet <mmrtnt at earthlink.net> wrote:

From: Mike Martinet <mmrtnt at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.
To: tfug at tfug.org, tfug at tfug.org
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 10:13 AM

>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:23:55 -0700
>From: "Ed Wilson" <debed at debed.com>
>
>WOW, 5,000 cards! That is a lot, and you took a single fortran class? I am
>impressed.
>


Okay all you card-punchers and paper-tapers (for the record, my first encounter with a computer was in 1977 on a training device with wire-core memory, but sadly, no Big Iron experience), how long until programmers are rendered obsolete?

I'm thinking here of the success of Watson on "Jeopardy"

Ten years?  Five years?  Twenty until computers are programming themselves?

MjM

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