From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Ben Collver wrote or quoted:
>Why write code, the thinking went, when you could diagram it?
There also are outright visual programming languages. See [1].
>But even AI doesn't remove the core challenge of software
>development: understanding what needs to be built.
Yeah, see [2].
Writing prompts for a chatbot /is/ programming. So, there still
are "coders".
Still, some things /have/ gotten easier. I have a reader and
writer for PNG files in Python. But it did not handle palettes
(technically, color type 3)! So I told the chatbot to add this.
Both the reader (191 lines) and the writer (90 lines) ran
correctly immediately. No need to debug! The three PNG files
I just posted here (with just 34, 11, and 12 KBytes only)?
They all were encoded with it! The last one with a palette.
[1]
.--------------------------------------------.
| .---------------. |
| | .----. | |
| | ->| | | |
.-------. | | | <= | -> | |
[] --->| qsort |---> [] | | x ->| | | |
'-------' | | '----' | |
| '---------------' |
| | |
| v .---. |
| .------. .-------. | | |
.---------------. | xs -->| grep | ->| qsort | --->| | |
| .---. | | '------' '-------' | j | |
| x -->| | | .-------. | .------. | o | |
| | : | -> |-->| qsort | ->| x --->| list | --------------->| i | --> |
| xs ->| | | '-------' | '------' | n | |
| '___' | | .------. .-------. | | |
'---------------' | xs -->| grep | ->| qsort | --->| | |
| '------' '-------' | | |
| ^ '---' |
| | |
| .---------------. |
| | .----. | |
| | x ->| | | |
| | | < | -> | |
| | ->| | | |
| | '----' | |
| '---------------' |
'--------------------------------------------'
[2]
|The hardest single part of building a software system is
|deciding precisely what to build.
Brooks, F.P. Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software
Engineering, Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1995, Second Edition.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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