Fun with OpenAI

[Walter Bright]

On 12/20/2022 10:06 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 12/20/22 09:58, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 12/20/2022 8:22 AM, bachmeier wrote:
>>> Not if you do it correctly. You just have to give the computer a precise 
>>> description of everything you want it to do for you. That can be done by 
>>> creating a document and feeding it to the computer for processing.
>>
>> The precise description is just another programming language!
> 
> I think some of you are missing bachmeier's joke. :)

It's not necessarily a joke. I remember a product advertised heavily in the 
1980s that claimed to "eliminate programming". But if you read about it more 
carefully, they replaced it with some sort of "specification language".