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[–] 229 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Tech guy invents the concept of giving instructions

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  • [–] 128 points 2 years ago (21 children)

    It would be nice if it was possible to describe perfectly what a program is supposed to do.

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  • [–] 86 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Someone should invent some kind of database of syntax, like a... code

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    But it would need to be reliable with a syntax, like some kind of grammar.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's great, but then how do we know that the grammar matches what we want to do - with some sort of test?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    What, like some kind of design requirements?

    Heresy!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Design requirements are too ambiguous.

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    I think our man meant in terms of real-world situations

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    Who even makes these comics? Is it like Simpsons

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Randall Munroe. You may know him from such gems as xkcd 3472 and 6548.

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    Web browsing 101: if you see a hyperlink on social media, you can click on it and then look around to see if it contains more links with useful information, often in the header or footer of the page. Here I found one for you: https://xkcd.com/about/

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    OP just chatting with themselves so they can screenshot it?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I wrote a shell script like this (it admin , notna dev) for private use.
    The prompt took me like 5 hours of rewriting the instructions.
    Don't even know yet if it works (lol)

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