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Programmers are no longer needed! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Early 80s: High level structured languages (Hello COBOL!)

Late 80s: 4th generation languages

At least before that people just assumed everybody that interacted with a computer was a programmer, so managers didn't have a compulsion when hearing the name and decided to fire all programmers.