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[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> But I worry that eventually we'll get to some point where all code either is 
> or can be generated straight from "intents" syntax. Now that certainly 
> sounds great, but at that point all we really would have done is reinvent 
> "programming language" and we'd be left with the same problem we have today: 
> how can we be sure that the "code"/"intents" that we wrote are really what 
> we intended to write? The solution would have just recreated the problem.

Back in the 80's, there was a heavily advertised product that touted "no 
more programming necessary". All you had to do was write in their 
"scripting language" and the product would read that and do all the 
"programming" for you.

I thought it was hilarious.