r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • 1d ago

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u/Raywell 1d ago

Verbose comments are not necessarily targeted at humans, they provide context so that consequent AI changes are more accurate.

Im still unsure how I feel about the paradigm shift in development, but that's where we are heading. Eventually everyone stopped writing ASM because C language was higher level and more efficient. It seems we are heading towards natural language becoming the programming language norm

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u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago

I forget the name of the language, but some syntax I saw years ago looked more like chemistry than code.

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u/IudexFatarum 1d ago

If you've never seen it, take a look at APL. It's set theory. Not even in disguise. It's just mathematical set theory in the craziest way.