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Re:Can you trust a compiler to optimize your code? by 3cats-in-a-coat on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @09:32AM (#36955738)
Rails was at one point advertised as the web platform where the CEO can directly type, almost in English, their app, and he never has to pay a programmer anymore. Programmers are obsolete. So... I guess the culture that formed around it, no wonder, wasn't of the brightest people.
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Re:Can you trust a compiler to optimize your code? by ElectricalUnion on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:48PM (#36959613)
> COBOL was at one point advertised as the platform where the CEO can directly type, almost in English, their app, and he never has to pay a programmer anymore. Programmers are obsolete. So... I guess the culture that formed around it, no wonder, wasn't of the brightest people.

FTFY.

Where you can have great things such as:

a IS GREATER THAN b

a IS GREATER THAN b AND c OR EQ TO d

MULTIPLY PAY-RATE BY 1.5 GIVING OVERTIME-RATE

\s It's as old as dirt.

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