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Agreed with the sentiment that there are different kinds of clients/opportunities and sales cycles. However the idea specifically in ABC is the 'close'. 'Closing' is the act of securing payment from an entity. I've seen a lot of 'sales guys' who talk about how hard they're selling. But ultimately getting the money into your bank account is the real goal. Everything else is derivative.

Looks like the SEC's Edgar website is affected. This is the site the SEC uses to post the filings of public companies. Normally there are a hundred or more company filings in the morning starting at 6am ET. This morning there are two.

https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcurrent

I believe this aphorism applies to programming languages, "everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler". And at the risk of not answering the question, the reality is that no one language would ever be sufficient because a programming language is a tool, not a solution. And different jobs/goals require different tools. Therefore, to paraphrase from Malcom Gladwell, there is no such thing as the perfect programming language for non-programmers, only the perfect programming languages.

From there I'd imagine the best thing we can do is discuss features/tools that are used today that would be good for non-programmers. As many commenters have suggested, this will probably appear like the existing suite of tools that non-programmers use.

First, maybe an interactive graphical component that allows a users to define the flow of data. Something like Visio to allow users to draw data & input/output, mixed with a component like MSAccess to define the data model. Then a natural language tool that would take normal language and apply rules on the data (Hypercard). Finally, a visual component (like Excel) to validate that the data is correct and potentially generate reports for other non-programmers.

Michael Flynn plead guilty to the charges. He signed the statement of offense[0] with his personal lawyer. Simply because Mr Flynn chose to write a book of fiction afterwards does not change the fact that he admitted his guilt to the courts under penalty of perjury.

"The preceding statement is a summary, made for the purpose of providing the Court with a factual basis for my guilty plea to the charge against me. It does not include all of the facts known to me regarding this offense. I make this statement knowingly and voluntarily and because I am, in fact, guilty of the crime charged. No threats have been made to me nor am I under the influence of anything that could impede my ability to understand this Statement of the Offense fully.

I have read every word of this Statement of the Offense, or have had it read to me. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, after consulting with my attorneys, I agree and stipulate to this Statement of the Offense, and declare under penalty of perjury that it is true and correct."

[0] - https://www.justice.gov/file/1015126/download

Yahoo news[0] and other news sources report significant efficacy even at the 5 day mark.

"Rates were similar for patients treated within five days of symptoms - 1% of the treatment group was hospitalized, compared with 6.7% for the placebo group, which included 10 deaths."

[0] - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pfizer-says-antiviral-pill-cu...

The notion that extended benefits during a pandemic to unemployed workers caused greater/continued unemployment in the US service industry is a theory that has yet to be proven. Some early data[0] suggests that the theory fails to accurately predict behavior.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/early-end-to-federal-unemplo...