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Re:HARC by stephengillie on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:13PM (#11680896)
Programmers are known as "people who do not like to repeat themselves" but they spend their days typing the same brackets and 5 words. (If, else, for/foreach, select/case, string...)

The next step is writing software that can write software. Maybe automated automation can't write a self-driving algorithm, but automation should be able to write the code to send email to a list of addresses.

We shouldn't automate dumb things. We should automate the automation of dumb things.

Re:HARC by ghuntley on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:25AM (#11681497)
Maybe having to repeat those brackets and 5 words are soul reason why programmers don't like to repeat themselves? </showerThought>
Re:HARC by stephengillie on Monday May 16, 2016 @03:06PM (#11708758)
If you always write the brackets when you write the "if", why not write a function that writes both for you?