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Re:Ask HN: What will programming look like in 2020? by codegeek on Monday December 17, 2012 @10:35AM (#4932644)
"7 years ago (2006), what was different? What new techs have come out in that span?"

Even though I understand the overall point you are making, we had a few significant changes since 2006. The emergenc of iphone/ipad and the App Store/iOS programming.

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Re:Ask HN: What will programming look like in 2020? by mchannon on Monday December 17, 2012 @10:41AM (#4932680)
Fair point. Still, what programming actually looks like for those environments (black monospaced text in large windows) is little changed.

2020 will see some new devices, but we won't be using our voices, LabVIEW-style icons, or a foreign character set to program these devices. I think in a number of ways it's reassuring that so little of programming skill itself is destined for obsolescence.

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Re:Ask HN: What will programming look like in 2020? by msh on Monday December 17, 2012 @02:33PM (#4933897)
It's not that different (technically) from developing Mobil apps in 2006, then the target was just Symbian and windows mobile.
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