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Re:Programming breakthroughs we need by whartung on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @10:46AM (#32497140)
I'm a firm believer in empowering end user automation. The atrocities that folks cobble together with the Excels of the world are a marvel, and more power to them.

But in the end, we all talk about leaky abstractions, and the stark horror is that the fact that all of these wonders run on a computer, the worlds leakiest abstraction, the worlds most stubborn, pig headed, cantankerous contraption out there.

And all the lipstick in the world can't hide it.

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Re:Programming breakthroughs we need by enos_feedler on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:30PM (#32504106)
I think it goes beyond automation and into customization. Giving end users the power to "program the program" just makes it possible to make the thing do what they want in a way that it wasn't set out to do. Without having to pay/find/wait for a developer to do it. Sometimes it's about automation. Sometimes it isn't.
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