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by tlextrait 3585 days ago
It's not because we achieve more with less code that we write less code. Instead we want more. Doing speech recognition would have been unthinkable with punch cards... plenty of things are still unthinkable today, but maybe not tomorrow.
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> It's not because we achieve more with less code that we write less code. Instead we want more.

It's inevitable that this changes some day.

Probably a very distant day, but we must get to the point when we solved nearly half of all the problems that we can solve with software.