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Animats 15 days ago

(2010)

This refers to the era of COBOL, or maybe Hypertalk, not LLMs.

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guy234 15 days ago | parent | next [-]

The original text was from 1978 according to other sources

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bambax 15 days ago | parent | next [-]

Ah, thanks. Yes it couldn't have been 2010 because he died in 2002. But the date this was written is important, otherwise his references to "the last decade" don't mean anything!

	▲	yaris 15 days ago \| parent [-]
		Many would say that "the last decade" (with the surrounding context) is timeless, or at least that it is still relevant today.

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Animats 15 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Right, it seemed earlier.

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imglorp 15 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Apple didn't learn those lessons with Apple Script either: there is a rigid sequence of characters that represents a valid program and if you're off by one character, tough. If you're lucky, the tool will guide you to what it wants. If not, you're stuck looking up the exact syntax so off to the reference manual you go, either way.

So there's minimal to looking up the syntax, whether it's based on some natural language phrase or a less wordy or ambiguous artificial language.

"friendly" or "natural" really is not a thing.