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been there, heard that... (Score:2)

by jhi (318) <jhi@iki.fi> on 2007.11.17 10:13 (#59061) Homepage Journal

The boss of my boss once changed from a CS professor to a hardware designer, and the cranky pronouncements of the kind "why can't we just spec the software and press a button and the software automagically comes out from the other end" soon started.

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  by chromatic (983)
  
  I remember translating a program from source code into machine code by hand once, in the '80s, just to see if I could. That magic button is a compiler.
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    by jhi (318)
    
    I think he was more thinking along the lines of "insert a formal spec, out comes an application" (and out of the door go the now unnecessary programmers).

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