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Comment by rgovostes | Hacker News Reader

The prompts used are in this file: https://github.com/LaurieWired/Malimite/blob/main/src/main/j...

Who would have guessed just a few years ago that the final programming language would be English.

The last trump has not sounded just yet. The day of judgement is still not quite at hand. It is - for now - still all to play for.

(in (the 'end) (will (speak we) lisp))

    ; in: THE 'END
    ;     (THE 'END)
    ;
    ; caught ERROR:
    ;   Error while parsing arguments to special operator THE:
    ;     too few elements in
    ;       ('END)
    ;     to satisfy lambda list
    ;       (VALUE-TYPE FORM):
    ;     exactly 2 expected, but got 1

In the 1980s/early 1990s when HyperCard was king, that would have made sense. And in the late 1990s/early 2000s when Applescript was a thing people cared about, too. But yes, for the last twenty years or so, English-like programming languages weren't the thing.

Kind of amused she uses raw format strings to generate JSON

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