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by 334f905d22bc19 154 days ago
On the foolishness of "natural language programming". - prof.dr.Edsger W.Dijkstra

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...

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>We would need all the intellect in the world to get the interface narrow enough to be usable, and, in view of the history of mankind, it may not be overly pessimistic to guess that to do the job well enough would require again a few thousand years.

It seems it only took until about 2023 or so