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Re:Teaching foreign policy majors to code by deanmen on Friday September 14, 2018 @03:45AM (#17985441)
In older use, "coding" meant only assembly and machine language programming, which would be a separate process from writing a high-level algorithmic version. A paper on FORTRANS claims that it will "virtually eliminate coding and debugging" Thus the statement that the class is no coding could be considered truthful.

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/BackusE...

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Re:Teaching foreign policy majors to code by duckerude on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:34AM (#17985624)
That doesn't seem relevant, given what the article says:

>On the first day I soothingly assured them that they wouldn’t have to do any programming, which of course was a complete lie.

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Re:Teaching foreign policy majors to code by deanmen on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:38AM (#17985886)
Sorry, I must have misremembered and thought they said "no coding" instead of "no programming". But people would probably call such a usage a lie if it is intended to mislead even if strictly speaking it isn't.
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