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by vba616 1428 days ago
What's all this, then?

Programming was automated 65 years ago.

The "Formula Translating System" introduced in 1957 eliminated the drudgery of programming by allowing users to simply enter equations into a computer directly.

Specifying machine instructions and memory addresses by hand rapidly became a thing of the past.

Today, having a programming assistant is as quaint as a secretary.