The End of Programming as We Know It – O’Reilly

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Join the O'Reilly online learning platform. Get a free trial today and find answers on the fly, or master something new and useful. Tracking need-to-know trends at the intersection of business and technology. Please read our privacy policy. There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it. It is not the end of programming. It is the end of programming as we know it today. That is not new. The first programmers connected physical circuits to perform each calculation. They were succeeded by programmers writing machine instructions as binary code to be input one bit at a time by flipping switches on the front of a computer. Assembly language programming then put an end to that. It lets a programmer use a human-like language to tell the computer to move data to locations in memory and perform calculations on it. Then, development of even higher-level compiled languages like Fortran, COBOL, and their successors C, C++, and Java m

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