[Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

[Mike Martinet]

>Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:58:25 -0700
>From: Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name>
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>Card-puncher here :)  (I still use them as note cards)
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>I see programmers becoming a very (relative to today) small group of 
>people that manage, maintain, augment and service the behemoth systems 
>running in the cloud.
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>As for when... it is already happening...
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That's really an elegant vision - people will always have desires, needs.  So, instead of directly programming machines to approximate solutions, we will instead "guide" machines to satisfy our desires/needs.

Until, of course, the machines enslave us all...

:)

MjM