Kevlin Henney being interviewd by Richard Seidl [Wayback/Archive] MDVxFQrqZnh1OxlP.jpg (1200×675)
The quote from this abstract of the January 2024 interview with Kevlin Henney by Richard Seidl is important:
You really need to understand history. First of all, you need to understand history. Then, you need to understand language. And you need to go and talk to some customers. And then, you will realize how safe your job is. Because programming is not merely the assembly of syntax. It is the application of precision. It is the seeking of precision.And what is the answer? What is it that I’m trying to do?And it turns out that if you specify something badly in natural language, it works out even worse than if you did it in code.And we already know, for example– we can actually take inspiration from the most widely used programming paradigm on the planet, the spreadsheet. What we know from the spreadsheet is that most people who use a spreadsheet do not have a software development background.
Yes.
We also know that most spreadsheets are unmaintainable, incomprehensible, and buggy. If we are saying that the future of software development is people who are not software experts doing this stuff, your job is safe.
It is a fragment of the vodcast episode [Wayback/Archive] Software Engineering im Jahr 2034 – Richard Seidl which limits the quote to this:
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 