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Comment by LeoPanthera | Hacker News Reader

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

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.

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

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